Chroma: Celebrating Colour in Photography

Here is a wonderful and absorbing way to come to know and appreciate today''s colour photography and its greatest practitioners. Photographs are grouped together by six basic colours - red, blue, green, yellow, white and black - thereby triggering a stream of enjoyable and stimulating experiences.After a succinct and clearly written introduction and one-page prefaces outlining what it is that the colours connote today and have done in the past, we enter a magical, amusing, haunting, uplifting, thought-provoking, delightful and occasionally shocking universe. Page after page of magnificently printed imagery silently tells us more about the world today and yesterday, and how all of us interact with it and apprehend it and learn from it, than any other formal study could ever do. Here are canonical and unusual photographs by practically all the great names and artists who use the medium - S

Michel Pastoureau is the Chair of History of Western Symbolism and is a director of studies at the Sorbonne's Ecole pratique des hautes etudes. Among his many other books are the critically acclaimed Blue: The History of a Color and Black: The History of a Color.