In addition, the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film, Zurich University of the Arts provided a major contribution to the development of the database. 80 financial contributors sponsored the crowdfunding campaign Database of Historical Film Colors with more than USD 11.100 in 2012. In 2013 the University of Zurich and the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded additional funding for the elaboration of this web resource. Timeline of Historical Film Colors was started with Barbara Flueckiger’s research at Harvard University in the framework of her project Film History Re-mastered, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, 2011-2013. This database was created in 2012 and has been developed and curated by Barbara Flueckiger, professor at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich to provide comprehensive information about historical film color processes invented since the end of the 19th century including specific still photography color technologies that were their conceptual predecessors. An extensive image section illustrates the texts and color systems and continues the aesthetic experience of the various processes and objects in book form.
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Thematic clusters focus on aesthetic and technological parallels, including fashion and identity, abstraction and experiment, politics, exoticism, and travel.Ĭolor Mania contains a general introduction to color in film and photography (technique, materiality, aesthetics) as well as a series of short essays that take a closer look at specific aspects. Works of contemporary photographers and artists who reflect on technological and culture-theoretical aspects of the material of color underline these relations. This publication highlights material aspects of color in photography and film, while also investigating the relationship of historical film colors and present-day photography. Apart from these fundamental connections in terms of the technology of color processes, film and photography also share and exchange color attributions and aesthetics. In this regard, both media institutionalized numerous techniques such as hand and stencil coloring as well as printing and halftone processes. More than 230 film color processes have been devised in the course of film history, often in close connection with photography. Since the earliest days of cinema, film has been a colorful medium and art form.
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