Color: American Photography Transformed Category_Telephoto Lenses Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

Burt Glinn

with a high degree of precision

the Exclusion Zone and the abandoned city of Pripyat

Color: American Photography Transformed Category_Telephoto Lenses Brigitte BardotCapturing the world in color was one of photographys greatest aspirations from the very beginnings of the medium. When color photography became a reality with the introduction of the Autochrome in 1907, prominent photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz were overjoyed. But they quickly came to reject color photography as too aligned with human sight. It took decades for artists to come to understand the creative potential of color, and only in 1976,