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22) the freedom to begin to use color for its descriptive qualities. 21 The 1976 debut of William Eggleston’s Guide at the Museum of Modern Art marks the color photograph’s entrée into the world of fine art. Critics of Eggleston claim he is a slumming aristocrat whose photographs are not worthy of a frame of film. His admirers counter by saying he possesses the gift of being able to make photographs out of nothing. At his best, the seemingly casual and dispassionate manner of his images masks his adroitness as a caustic yet affectionate memoirist of the banality and strangeness of everyday America in which objects take on a personality and become portraits.
When making prints from a chromogenic negative with the subtractive method, the light is filtered in the enlarger before it reaches the negative. Correct color balance can thus be achieved in a single exposure. One of the three dye layers in the negative is usually left unfiltered. Printing is simplified because it is not necessary to use more than two filters at one time to make a print. The subtractive method also enables pictures to be made directly from transparency film in a reversal printing process, such as Ilfochrome Classic P3.
Twin Towers (right panel) 9-25-2001, from the series Images from Ground Zero, 2003. 48 × 60 inches. Chromogenic color print. Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY. 14 y CHAPTER 2 A Concise History of Color Photography The First Color Photographs: Applied Color Processes To understand what is happening in color photography today it is beneficial to know what has been previously accomplished. The quest for color photography can be traced to Louis-JacquesMandé Daguerre’s 1839 public announcement of his daguerreotype process, which produced a finely detailed, one-of-a-kind, direct-positive photographic image through the action of light on a silver-coated copper plate.