Exhibition PH21 Gallery - Budapest
Disco Chic
EXHIBITION PH21 GALLERY – Budapest – Hungary
Exhibition of 3 portraits from my series “Disco Chic” at PH21 Gallery Budapest – Selected following a competition for the “Significant Colour”
Fine Art Print 30x40cm –
There are two kinds of photographs with respect to the significance of their use of colours. On the one hand, ever since colour film technology became widely available, colour has become the default in most photographic practices.
That is, some photographs are in colour not because their colours bear some special significance (compared, for instance, to their possible black and white counterparts) but simply because the available film or digital technology has long turned colour to be the common method of capturing photographic images. We may think of these photographs as colour by default.
On the other hand, colours are often central to the meaning of photographs for their emphatic, symbolic, psychological, social, compositional, etc. significance. These photographs would not work in black and white the same way or they would not work at all; that they are in colour is not merely a technological given, rather, it is an integral, formative and significant aspect of their photographic meaning. We may think of these photographs as colour by significance.