Contents

5 Preface Barbara Flueckiger, Eva Hielscher, and Nadine Wietlisbach

9 Color Mania: The Material of Color in Photography and Film

Exhibition and Publication Eva Hielscher and Nadine Wietlisbach

11 Film Colors

Materiality, Technology, Aesthetics

Barbara Flueckiger

51 (ln)Visible Color

Plea for a History of Color Photography Thilo Koenig

79 Continually Oscillating

Dunja Evers between Photography, Film, and Painting

Franziska Kunze

89 Polar Colors in Roald Amundsen's Films, Photographs,

and Writings Eirik Frisvold Hanssen

101 Obsessions between Orient and Occident

On the Construction and Imagination of "Exotic"

Worlds in Silent Film Evelyn Echle

113 Tales of Cloud Fabrics and Breathing Forms

Artistic Research into Early Film Colors and Alternative

Film Histories in the Work of Alexandra Navratil Eva Hielscher

121 Such (Dye-)Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

Material Interactions between the Photography, Film,

and Fashion Industries

Olivia Kristina Stutz

133 Tinting and Toning

The Luminous Beauty of Chemistry from Silent to Soun d Film

Ulrich Ruedel

147 Blue Sliding into Black

Photograms between Material Experiment and Expressive

Painterly Gesture Nadine Wietlisbach

151 Images du Monde Visionnaire

The Representation of Hallucinogenic Vision in

Various Ranges of Color

Bregt Lameris

165 Light and Shadow

Aesthetics in the Chromogenic Color Film of the 1910s

Joi:Hie Kost

119 Color Floating in Space

Barbara Kasten's Architectural Sites Mona Schubert

181 Avant-Gardist Colors in a Political Tug-of-War

Gasparcolor between Art and Fascism Noemi Daugaard

191 Standardizing Color Film

Technicolor No. IV and Agfacolor during the 1940s Michelle Beutler

211 Agfacolor in (lnter)National Competition

Josephine Diecke

223 "The Digitization of Analogue Colors Is Extremely

Complex"

David Pfluger, Giorgio Trumpy, and Martin Weiss in conversation with Simon Spiegel

229 Editors

230 Authors

235 Bibliography

Color Mania The Material of Color in Photography and Film

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Color Mania - The Material of Color in Photography and Film at Fotomuseum Winterthur, September 1- November 24, 2019.

The exhibition was realized in cooperation with the research projects ERC Advanced Grant Film Colors: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Aesthetics and SNSF Film Colors: Technologies , Cultures, Institutions by Prof. Dr. Barbara Flueckiger, University of Zurich, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as an Agora project.

Color Mania was kindly supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Volkert Foundation, Stiftung Temperatio and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

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Imprint Editors: Barbara Flueckiger, Eva Hielscher, Nadine Wietlisbach Authors: Michelle Beutler, Noemi Daugaard , Josephine Diecke, Evelyn Echle, Barbara Flueckiger, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, Eva Hielscher, Thilo Koenig , Joelle Kost, Franziska Kunze, Bregt Lameris , David Pfluger, Ulrich Ruedel , Mona Schubert, Simon Spiegel , Olivia Kristina Stutz, Giorgio Trumpy, Martin Weiss, Nadine Wietli sbach Editorial team: Barbara Flueckiger, Doris Gassert, Eva Hielscher (lead) Translations: Alex Busch (for the text of Flueckiger), Tradukas GbR/ Simon Cowper (for the preface, introduction and the texts of Hielscher, Kunze, Schubert, Wietlisbach) , Benjamin Letzler (for the texts of Echle, Koenig , Ruedel), Steven Lindberg (for the texts of Diecke, Kost, Stutz) Copyediting: Simon Cowper Proofreading: Stephanie Shellabear Design: meierkolb, Andre Meier and Franziska Kolb Coordination publi sher: Maya Ruegg Production: Martina Mullis Lithography: prints professional , Berlin , Germany Printing and binding: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, Germany Paper: Arctic Volume White, 130 g / m2 and 250 g / m 2

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No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or manner whatsoever without prior written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Lars Muller Publishers is supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture with a structural contribution for the years 2016-2020.

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Fotomuseum Winterthur Exhibition curators: Eva Hielscher, Nadine Wietlisbach Exhibition assistants: Sophie-Charlotte Opitz, Mona Schubert Director: Nadine Wietlisbach Managing director: Remo Longhi Research curator: Doris Gassert Digital curator: Marco De Mutiis Assistant curator: Mona Schubert Exhibition organization: Therese Seeholzer Art Handling and collection care: Andrea Had em, Herbert Weber Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung fellow: Sophie-Charlotte Opitz Art education: Carol Baumgartner (head of digital), Madleina Deplazes, Saada Elabed, Christina Muller (head), Patrizio Munforte (research assistant), Astrid Naff Installation team: Ueli Alder, Bea Dorig, Andrea Hadem, Michael Lio, Benedikt Redmann (exhibition technician), Herbert Weber (head), Andrea ZOIIig Communication: Julia Sumi Creative technologist: Fernando Obieta Sponsoring and fundraising: Corinna Kohler Assistant to the director/Friends' Association: Isabelle Messina Administration: Brigitte Boateng-Knapp Accounting and advertising: Daniela Schwendimann Interns: Laura Paloma, Isabelle Weber Front-of-house coordination: Rita Capaul , Sophie Mauch Museum shop: Evelyn Huber Museum technician: Oliver Gubser Library: Celine Brunko, Matthias Gobi (head)

Fotomuseum Winterthur Gruzenstrasse 44+45 CH-8400 Winterthur fotomuseum.ch

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University of Zurich ERC Advanced Grant FilmColor: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Aesthetics Project leader: Barbara Flueckiger Researchers : Michelle Beutler, Joelle Kost, Bregt Lameris, David Pfluger, Olivia Kristina Stutz, Giorgio Trumpy, Martin Weiss Research management: Evelyn Echle, Simon Spiegel

SNSF Film Colors: Technologies, Cultures, Institutions Project leader: Barbara Flueckiger Researchers: Noemi Daugaard, Josephine Diecke

SNSF Agora Presentation and Visualization of Historical Film Colors Project leader: Barbara Flueckiger Curator: Eva Hielscher Research management: Evelyn Echle, Simon Spiegel Development ColorMania App: Josua Frohlich

The contributions by Michelle Beutler, Evelyn Echle, Bregt Lameris, Joelle Kost, Olivia Kristina Stutz as well as the conversation of Simon Spiegel with David Pfluger, Giorgio Trumpy, and Martin Weiss resulted as part of the research project Film Color: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Aesthetics. This project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) within the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, grant agreement Nr. 67'0446 FilmColors.