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1 Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to form. Harmony implies balance, symmetry of forces. - Johannes Itten, from The Art of Color

2 LIGHT IMPRESSION

3 ALTERING COLOR HUE SATURATION BRILLIANCE EXTENSION SIMULTANEOUS

4 Gradation of Color Name and properties or mixture of a color that enables it to be perceived White, gray, and black have no hue HUE

5 hue / saturation / value

6 SATURATION The level and mixture of white, black, grey or complimentary included in color

7 BRILLIANCE / VALUE Lightness or darkness of a color Lightened values are tints, darkened values are shades and medium value colors are described as midtones

8 BRILLIANCE / VALUE HOW LIGHT OR DARK A COLOR IS COLORS OF EQUAL BRILLIANCE

9 EXTENSION PROPORTIONS OF COLOR SIMULTANEOUS SHIFTING OF COLORS TO COMPLIMENTARY

10 COLOR AGENT AND COLOR EFFECT

11 COLOR EXPRESSION

12 12 HUE COLOR CIRCLE

13 PRIMARY / SECONDARY / TERTIARY

14 Analogous Colors Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.

15 Seven Color Contrasts 1. Contrast of Hue 2. Light Dark Contrast 3. Cold Warm Contrast 4. Complementary Contrast 5. Simultaneous Contrast 6. Contrast of Saturation 7. Contrast of Extension

16 Contrast of Hue At least three clearly differentiated hues are necessary

17 Light Dark Contrast Alec Soth

18 Cold - Warm Contrast Martin Parr and Gregory Crewdson

19 COLD - WARM PROPERTIES Shadow / Sun Transparent / Opaque Sedative / Stimulant Airy / Earthy Far / Near Wet / Dry

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21 Complimentary Contrast Complementary colors are opposite each other on the Color Wheel. Christian Patterson / William Eggleston / William Christenberry

22 SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST The appearance of something being affected by the appearance of things surrounding it The simultaneously generated complementary color occurs as a sensation in the eye of the beholder, and is not objectively present. Refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other

23 CONTRAST OF SATURATION Pure colors may be diluted in four different ways: 1. Color diluted with white 2. Color diluted with black 3. Color diluted with gray 4. Color diluted by a mixture of corresponding complementary colors

24 CONTRAST OF EXTENSION Involves the relative size of two or more areas of color. It is the contrast between large and small areas.

25 YELLOW

26 YELLOW Martin Parr Dakar (yellow dress), 2001

27 YELLOW Tim Davis McDonalds 1, Forsythia from Retail

28 YELLOW Andrew Bush

29 YELLOW Alec Soth from Sleeping Along the Mississippi

30 YELLOW William Eggleston Untitled (Yellow Gas Station Restroom)

31 YELLOW Martin Parr from Great Britain

32 YELLOW Liz Kuball from California Vernacular

33 YELLOW Amir Zaki Untitled (Tower 42)

34 YELLOW Andreas Gursky

35 RED Pieter Hugo Gabazzini Zuo. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008

36 RED

37 RED Martin Parr

38 RED Richard Misrach from Desert Cantos (Violent Legacies)

39 RED Brian Ulrich

40 RED Alec Soth from Niagara

41 RED Alec Soth

42 RED Alec Soth from Niagara

43 RED John Pfahl, B-58 Hustler Pd / Galisteo Basin Petroglyphs

44 RED

45 RED David Lachapelle

46 RED Alec Soth

47 RED Andrew Bush Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards, Los Angeles, at approximately 11:59 a.m. one day in February 1997

48 RED Martin Parr

49 Cara Phillips

50 RED Martin Parr Essex Girl

51 RED JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Tess and Her Pink Things

52 RED JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Yealin Ham and Her Pink Things 2005

53 BLUE JeongMee Yoon The Blue Project - Jeonghoon and His Blue Things

54 BLUE

55 BLUE Alec Soth from Niagara

56 BLUE Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

57 BLUE Michael Light from 100 Suns

58 BLUE Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

59 BLUE Penelope Umbrico from Honeymoon Suites

60 BLUE Penelope Umbrico from Honeymoon Suites

61 BLUE Martina Mullaney from Turn In

62 BLUE Martina Mullaney from Turn In

63 BLUE Alec Soth

64 BLUE Cara Philips

65 BLUE Cara Philips from Singular Beauty

66 BLUE Olaf Breuning

67 GREEN Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

68 GREEN Brad Moore

69 GREEN Andreas Gursky

70 GREEN William Eggleston

71 GREEN Richard Renaldi from Touching Strangers

72 GREEN William Eggleston

73 GREEN Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

74 GREEN Stephen Shore

75 GREEN Helen Levitt New York City, 1980

76 GREEN Larry Sultan from Pictures from Home

77 GREEN Thomas Demand

78 GREEN Catherine Wagner A Narrative History of the Lightbulb: Green Energy

79 GREEN

80 GREEN Martin Parr

81 GREEN Will Steacy from The Price We Pay

82 GREEN Will Steacy from The Price We Pay

83 ORANGE Michael Light Sun City, AZ

84 ORANGE Liz Kuball

85 ORANGE Joel Sternfeld

86 ORANGE Michael Light GRABLE, 15 Kilotons, Nevada 1953 from 100 Suns

87 ORANGE Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #34

88 ORANGE Alec Soth

89 ORANGE Martin Parr

90 ORANGE Brian Ulrich

91 VIOLET Christian Patterson Lamplighter Jukebox, 2005

92 VIOLET Tim Davis

93 VIOLET Christian Patterson

94 VIOLET Andreas Gursky Hong Kong Stock Exchange II

95 VIOLET Mitch Epstein Liquidation Sale

96 VIOLET Alec Soth

97 VIOLET Candida H öfer

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