Notes on Color

Notes on Color is a digital photography class that will address color photography, both analogue and digital, with the aim of unpacking and understanding the profound aesthetic and material sway over our habits of vision and culture color photography exerts. Beginning with the 19th century's two foundational texts on color theory for artists, Goethe's "Theory of Color" and Michel-Eugène Chevreul's "Principles of Color Harmony and Contrast," Notes on Color will explore how color transformed painting and photography from 1850 to the present.