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
LIGHT IMPRESSION
ALTERING COLOR HUE SATURATION BRILLIANCE EXTENSION SIMULTANEOUS
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
hue / saturation / value
SATURATION The level and mixture of white, black, grey or complimentary included in color
BRILLIANCE / VALUE Lightness or darkness of a color Lightened values are tints, darkened values are shades and medium value colors are described as midtones
BRILLIANCE / VALUE HOW LIGHT OR DARK A COLOR IS COLORS OF EQUAL BRILLIANCE
EXTENSION PROPORTIONS OF COLOR SIMULTANEOUS SHIFTING OF COLORS TO COMPLIMENTARY
COLOR AGENT AND COLOR EFFECT
COLOR EXPRESSION
12 HUE COLOR CIRCLE
PRIMARY / SECONDARY / TERTIARY
Analogous Colors Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
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
Contrast of Hue At least three clearly differentiated hues are necessary
Light Dark Contrast Alec Soth
Cold - Warm Contrast Martin Parr and Gregory Crewdson
COLD - WARM PROPERTIES Shadow / Sun Transparent / Opaque Sedative / Stimulant Airy / Earthy Far / Near Wet / Dry
Complimentary Contrast Complementary colors are opposite each other on the Color Wheel. Christian Patterson / William Eggleston / William Christenberry
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
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
CONTRAST OF EXTENSION Involves the relative size of two or more areas of color. It is the contrast between large and small areas.
YELLOW
YELLOW Martin Parr Dakar (yellow dress), 2001
YELLOW Tim Davis McDonalds 1, Forsythia from Retail
YELLOW Andrew Bush
YELLOW Alec Soth from Sleeping Along the Mississippi
YELLOW William Eggleston Untitled (Yellow Gas Station Restroom)
YELLOW Martin Parr from Great Britain
YELLOW Liz Kuball from California Vernacular
YELLOW Amir Zaki Untitled (Tower 42)
YELLOW Andreas Gursky
RED Pieter Hugo Gabazzini Zuo. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008
RED
RED Martin Parr
RED Richard Misrach from Desert Cantos (Violent Legacies)
RED Brian Ulrich
RED Alec Soth from Niagara
RED Alec Soth
RED Alec Soth from Niagara
RED John Pfahl, B-58 Hustler Pd / Galisteo Basin Petroglyphs
RED
RED David Lachapelle
RED Alec Soth
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
RED Martin Parr
Cara Phillips
RED Martin Parr Essex Girl
RED JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Tess and Her Pink Things
RED JeongMee Yoon The Pink Project - Yealin Ham and Her Pink Things 2005
BLUE JeongMee Yoon The Blue Project - Jeonghoon and His Blue Things
BLUE
BLUE Alec Soth from Niagara
BLUE Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
BLUE Michael Light from 100 Suns
BLUE Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
BLUE Penelope Umbrico from Honeymoon Suites
BLUE Penelope Umbrico from Honeymoon Suites
BLUE Martina Mullaney from Turn In
BLUE Martina Mullaney from Turn In
BLUE Alec Soth
BLUE Cara Philips
BLUE Cara Philips from Singular Beauty
BLUE Olaf Breuning
GREEN Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
GREEN Brad Moore
GREEN Andreas Gursky
GREEN William Eggleston
GREEN Richard Renaldi from Touching Strangers
GREEN William Eggleston
GREEN Taryn Simon from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
GREEN Stephen Shore
GREEN Helen Levitt New York City, 1980
GREEN Larry Sultan from Pictures from Home
GREEN Thomas Demand
GREEN Catherine Wagner A Narrative History of the Lightbulb: Green Energy
GREEN
GREEN Martin Parr
GREEN Will Steacy from The Price We Pay
GREEN Will Steacy from The Price We Pay
ORANGE Michael Light Sun City, AZ
ORANGE Liz Kuball
ORANGE Joel Sternfeld
ORANGE Michael Light GRABLE, 15 Kilotons, Nevada 1953 from 100 Suns
ORANGE Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #34
ORANGE Alec Soth
ORANGE Martin Parr
ORANGE Brian Ulrich
VIOLET Christian Patterson Lamplighter Jukebox, 2005
VIOLET Tim Davis
VIOLET Christian Patterson
VIOLET Andreas Gursky Hong Kong Stock Exchange II
VIOLET Mitch Epstein Liquidation Sale
VIOLET Alec Soth
VIOLET Candida H öfer