Color Mania: The Material of Color in Photography and Film (Paperback)

Since the earliest days of cinema, film has been a colourful medium and art form. More than 230 film colour processes have been devised in the course of film history, often in close connection with photography. In this regard, both media institutionalised numerous techniques such as hand and stencil colouring as well as printing and halftone processes. Apart from these fundamental connections in terms of the technology of colour processes, film and photography also share and exchange colour attributions and aesthetics. This publication highlights material aspects of colour in photography and film, while also investigating the relationship of historical film colours and present-day photography. Works of contemporary photographers and artists who reflect on technological and culture-theoretical aspects of the material of colour underline these relations. Thematic clusters focus on aesthetic and technological parallels, including fashion and identity, abstraction and experiment, politics, exoticism, and travel. Color Mania contains a general introduction to colour in film and photography (technique, materiality, aesthetics) as well as a series of short essays that take a closer look at specific aspects. An extensive image section illustrates the texts and colour systems and continues the aesthetic experience of the various processes and objects in book form.

Table of Contents 

• Preface - Barbara Flueckiger, Eva Hilscher and Nadine Wietlisbach
• Color Mania: The Material of Color in Photography and Film Exhibition and Publication - Eva Hilscher and Nadine Wietlisbach
• Film Colors: Materiality, Technology, Aesthetics - Barbara Flueckiger
• (In)Visible Color: Plea for a History of Color Photography - Thilo Koenig
• Continually Oscillating: Dunja Evers between Photography, Film and Painting - Franziska Kunze
• Polar Colorsin Roald Amundsen's Films, Photographs and Writing - Eirik Frisvold Hanssen
• Obsessions between Orient and Occident: On teh Construction and Imagination of "Exotic" Worlds in Silent Film - Evelyn Echle
• Tales of Cloud Fabrics and Breathing Forms: Artistic Reasearch into Early Film Colors and Alternative Film Histories in the Work Alexandra Navratil - Eva Hielscher
• Such (Dye-)Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: Material Interactions between the Photography, Film and Fashion Industries - Olivia Kristina Stutz
• Tinting and Toning: The Luminous Beaty of Chemistry From Silent to Sound Film - Ulrich Ruedel
• Blue Sliding into Black: Photograms between Material Experiment and Expressive Painterly Gesture - Nadine Wietlisbach
• Images du Monde Visionnaire: The Representationof HallucinogenicVision in Various Ranges of Colour - Bregt Lameris
• Light and Shadow: Aesthetics in the Chromogenic Color Film of the 1970s - Joelle Kost
• Color Floating in Space: Barbara Kasten's Architectural Sites - Mona Schubert
• Avant-Gardist Colors in a Political Tug-of-War: Gasparcolor between Art and Fascism - Noemi Daugaard 
• Standardizing Color Film: Technicolor No. IV and Agfacolor during the 1940s - Michelle Beutler
• Agfacolor in (Inter)National Competition - Josephine Diecke
• "The Digitization of Analogue Colors Is Extremely Complex" - David Pfluger, Georgio Trumpy, and Martin Weiss, in conversation with Simn Spiegel
• Editors
• Authors
• Bibliography