Color photography: August 2006 Archives

If you're a big Candida Höfer fan, check out "Hot Library Smut" (a misleading and pandering blog entry title if there ever was one) for a great collection of decent-sized examples of her work.

How do you differenitate between her representations of these striking spaces and the spaces themselves? Do you get the same sense from standing within them as you do viewing them through Höfer's lens? Probably not, but I can't help but think that 80% of the effect is in the subject.

Jason Kottke has grabbed a few examples from the Library of Congress' "Bound for Glory" online exhibition of 1930s color photography and applied some Photoshop kungfu (color correction) to bring a sense of "taken today" to these photographs. Striking and I'm embarassed I hadn't thought of it before.