COLOR

Poor gray. Cited as being the most depressing of hues – ask any Seattleite. Gray is also associated with boredom, loneliness, and emptiness. I, on the other hand, having a soft spot for the underdog, love the color. Florida, the sunshine state, is seriously gray deficient, but sometimes the fog will roll into “the Point” at the end of the boardwalk, and I’ll stand there staring into the hush over the water.   

Color is always much more than hue. Colors have qualities and personalities of their own. They affect our moods, happiness levels, fears, and even our appetites. The early street photographers were biased against color. Walker Evans called color photography “vulgar.” Robert Frank claimed: “Black and white are the colors of photography.” Eventually Ernst Haas, Fred Herzog, Martin Parr, Saul Leiter, and others bucked convention and fell in love with color. More recently, others such as Pete Turner, Jay Maisels and Alex Webb, have focused on color for its own sake – even to the point of supersaturation. In some of these pictures, I have tried to emulate them.