Contemporary American Color Photography

[tim atherton]

Or the "Old Color" Photographers

Interesting commentary on the current colour photography growing out of the work of the New Color practitioners if the 70's

http://christianpatterson.com/blog/archives/489

(and here to some extent http://christianpatterson.com/blog/archives/496 )

So what part of the tree is contemporary American color photography? I am beginning to think that it is really only a branch. And what part of the tree is most contemporary color photography? I am beginning to think that it is really only a twig...

...Most photographers working in this genre are pursuing aesthetics and concerns that were initiated in the 1970s, and have changed very little over the past thirty years. Different photographers incorporate different approaches, and embrace or abandon concept and/or narrative to varying degrees, but aside from subject matter, there is often little else that distinguishes the work. The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree...

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and a bit of my own take on it here

http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/...an-colour.html

[Mattg]

I tend to think that the current pursuit of colour in urban photography has a lot to do with the possibilities in digital editing and printing. I personally really like the current trend to muted colour and extreme degree of contrast management that verges on the surreal. An example online is the work Paul Vanzella of that can be found on Red Bubble.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/paul/portfolio

I agree that a lot of the new colour work is hackneyed but some breaks the mold.