Large-Format Color Photography

Large-Format Color is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a practice that uses the large-format camera and color to depict the structure and scale of contemporary society. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementLarge-Format Color
Photographers1

Overview

A practice that uses the large-format camera and color to depict the structure and scale of contemporary society.

Photographers

🇩🇪DE1955–
Andreas Gursky
Dusseldorf School
Dusseldorf SchoolLarge-Format Color+1

Born in Leipzig in 1955, Andreas Gursky grew up in a family of photographers, studied first with Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School, and then with Bernd Becher at the Dusseldorf Academy.

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