Tracking the Decade When Color Photography Rose – NYTimes.com

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Tracking the Rise of Color on Film

Black and white had been the only format for the lions of American photography, but in the 1970s a younger generation was ready to embrace something new.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/nyregion/08artsnj.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

“Black and white are the colors of photography,” Robert Frank declared. “Color photography is vulgar,” Walker Evans once wrote in an essay. And Ansel Adams weighed in on a William Eggleston photograph this way: “If you can’t make it good, make it red.”

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