A cavalcade of color photos by everyone from Alex Prager to William Wegman
This book, Chromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography, offers genuine relief from the black-and-white world. Often disparaged, not always taken seriously, color photography has nevertheless allowed artists to get out their palettes and "paint." Many have freed themselves from the medium’s documentary status to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with the worlds of Surrealism and Pop. Famed Italian visual artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé offer a rereading of the history of color photography through the 20th century into the 21st, and through the works of over 20 artists who take us on a journey into vibrant, acidulous worlds. Treat yourself to sunny yellow, azure blue, bright red, bubbly orange and more, straight from the lenses of the biggest names in color photography. Photographers include: Yevonde Middleton, Harold Edgerton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Walter Chandoha, William Wegman, Hiro, Guy Bourdin, Alex Prager, Juno Calypso, Adrienne Raquel, Miles Aldridge, Ouka Leele, Hassan Hajjaj, Ruth Ossai, Pierre et Gilles, Sandy Skoglund, Martin Parr, Arnold Odermatt, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
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The Fourth of July holiday is both fun and loaded. But whether you love the barbeques and the fireworks, or you fixate on contradictory aspects of our country’s history, we think there’s something special about this 1935 Lobster photograph by Madame Yevonde. Reproduced from Chromotherapia, it’s one of 170 “feel-good” color photographs selected by artist and Toilet Paper editor Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé for their unusual intensity. “Color photography is often criticized and belittled,” Cattelan and Stourdzé write, “but it has been a bonanza for artists, allowing them to get out their palettes and repaint the world. Some have broken with the medium’s traditional documentary role to explore photography’s shared roots with the world of the imagination, flirting with pop culture, Surrealism, bling, camp, kitsch and the bizarre—all associated with bad taste and extravagance. But why shouldn’t the trivial and the banal also have something to tell us about our existence and the age we live in? Why should rigorous, ascetic minimalism be the only way to approach reality?” continue to blog
Out now from Damiani Books, Chromotherapia is edited by artist and Toilet Paper publisher Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé, who together have taken Rome by storm with this exhibition of outrageous, sweet, sexy, Surrealist and Pop color photography by some of the most interesting figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—from Yevonde Middleton to William Wegman. Featured here is American mid-century cat photographer Walter Chandoha’s Long Island (1952). continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 170 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $60.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $84 ISBN: 9788862088367 PUBLISHER: Damiani AVAILABLE: 6/3/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Damiani. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Sam Stourdzé.
A cavalcade of color photos by everyone from Alex Prager to William Wegman
This book, Chromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography, offers genuine relief from the black-and-white world. Often disparaged, not always taken seriously, color photography has nevertheless allowed artists to get out their palettes and "paint." Many have freed themselves from the medium’s documentary status to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with the worlds of Surrealism and Pop. Famed Italian visual artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé offer a rereading of the history of color photography through the 20th century into the 21st, and through the works of over 20 artists who take us on a journey into vibrant, acidulous worlds. Treat yourself to sunny yellow, azure blue, bright red, bubbly orange and more, straight from the lenses of the biggest names in color photography.
Photographers include: Yevonde Middleton, Harold Edgerton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Walter Chandoha, William Wegman, Hiro, Guy Bourdin, Alex Prager, Juno Calypso, Adrienne Raquel, Miles Aldridge, Ouka Leele, Hassan Hajjaj, Ruth Ossai, Pierre et Gilles, Sandy Skoglund, Martin Parr, Arnold Odermatt, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
