The so-called color psychology refers to the colors we observe in our daily lives. In fact, to some extent, they are affected by a large number of subjective factors on the psychological level, and at the same time form the psychological color vision. In color science, the naming of colors depends on the following values, namely: hue, brightness, purity, dominant wavelength, etc.
For example, black may represent elegance, calmness, nobility, and professionalism, which means that most people will choose this color when you don’t want to attract people or want to show your high professionalism; white represents purity. For a flawless feeling, if you want to give people a fresh and bright impression, try wearing white; while the gray that wanders between the two represents a sense of obscurity, sincerity, and prudence, and also exudes authority, Not to be ignored, it even has an aura of maturity and sophistication. If you can successfully choose the gray that suits you, your persuasiveness will not be lost to black at all when you need to show confidence.
Of course, in terms of breakdown, warm and cold colors, the difference between the strength and weakness of the same color block, contrasting tones, complementary tones, etc., all have deeper meanings that need to be explored.
But what I want to introduce today is Mitchell Funk, a famous New York photographer who is good at using color to express cross-era meanings. He is already in his 50s. After the enlightenment stage at the age of 16, he has gradually He has accumulated a lot of works. When interviewed, he mentioned that due to the influence of his father’s work background (medical painting and photography), he gradually switched from a purely artistic performance to a platform with higher pop sensitivity. He even To be honest, in order to prevent magazine editors from underestimating his ability because of his age, he lied about his age just to present his works.
In the past 40 years, starting from 35mm film, focusing on urban New York City landscapes, adopting a film-like distortion method, and taking advantage of the continuous innovation of photography technology over the past few decades., taking the area of ??a large color block as the main subject, using its light and shadow observation at different times, combined with his concept of film presentation, to create an exaggerated and ostentatious impression of New York City in his mind.
His works have appeared in the famous Modern Photography and New York Magazine. In the 1970s, he published books: Travel Photography, Life Library of Photography, Time Life Books, etc., and held dozens of exhibitions. The theme of the latest urban photography issue is San Francisco.
Let’s take a look at how it defines New York City!
