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March 16, 2011
Although the introduction of chromogenic color processes made color photography commercially viable by the 1930s, it was not widely employed by artists until the 1970s. The pioneers of color photography, include Harry Callahan and William Eggleston, who made exceptional work using the complicated dye transfer process.
Harry Callahan, Alley with Green Moss, Venice, 1978
Harry Callahan (1912-1999) is widely recognized as one of the more influential photographers and teachers of the last half of the 20th Century. In the late 1970s, he began focusing on color. He had made color photographs for decades, but they only existed as Kodachrome transparencies. He began to produce dye transfer prints of his colour images and held his first color show in 1978 at the Light Gallery in New York.
There is no question that digital imaging and the internet have revolutionized the art of photography. Now everyone with a camera and a computer has the ability to take literally unlimited amounts of photographs, without any of the previous “arcane technical knowledge” required in the days of manual cameras and instantly display them to an audience of millions of people.
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