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July 30, 2004

I've always puzzled about colour photography being a genre of photography that has its aesthetic precedents in color snapshots and National Geographic travelogs.

I prefer to see it has street photography that has turned from black and white in the 1940s to colour in the 1970s due to technological advances in colour.

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Christopher Todd Lower East Side, NYC from New York series
Maybe the use of colour made photography recognizable as art in terms of style and subject matter?

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Christopher Todd Untitled Untittled New York series

Does it matter about the art stuff? What we have are ordinary snapshots of urbanscape in New York. it is what you'd see as you walked around the streets of a big city.
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Christopher Todd New York series

The construction of an expression out of a vernacular idom that walks a fine line between the trival and beauty.


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