Large-Format Color refers to a practice that uses the large-format camera and color to depict the structure and scale of contemporary society.
Large-format color combines the precision of the view camera with the informational density of color, pushing photography to a scale that competes with painting and cinema in the exhibition space.
Large-format color photography claims that the scale, detail density, and installation of the print are inseparable from its meaning — that photography at this size competes with painting and cinema in the gallery rather than illustrating a subject.
Large-Format Color refers to a practice that uses the large-format camera and color to depict the structure and scale of contemporary society.*1
On this site, photographers connected to Large-Format Color appear mainly in 1980–1990s, often overlapping with Dusseldorf School and Conceptual Art.*2
Large-Format Color often overlaps with Dusseldorf School and Conceptual Art. Reading those pages together makes it easier to see where method, institution, or critical language begins to diverge.*4
Born in Leipzig in 1955 to a family of photographers, Gursky studied under Otto Steinert at the Folkwang school before joining Bernd Becher's class at the Düsseldorf Academy …
Jeff Wall extended photography from a medium of momentary record to one that constructs how events appear — through large lightbox works, cinematic preparation, and a rereading …