Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 by James Crump (Hardcover,...
It is hard to imagine today that the artistic value of color \nphotography was once questioned and controversial, until well into the \neighties. William Eggleston s groundbreaking first exhibition at the New\n York Museum of Modern Art in 1976 was fiercely debated; many of those \nwho viewed his photographs found it difficult to assign the series \ndepicting everyday life in the South the status of an artwork. Early \nworks byStephen Shore and Helen Levitt, for example, also met with \nsimilarly adverse reviews. But color photography s triumphal march could\n not be halted: inspired by such pioneers, Jeff Wall, Rineke Dijkstra, \nPhilip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, and many others concentrated in \nsucceeding years on illustrating reality, depicting the banal and \nseemingly ephemeral with great truthfulness, making use of intense \ncolors to express their emotions. Starburst examines the influence of \nthe first great names of artistic color photography in the United States\n on fol!
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