Preface | Page 1

Think about what color means to us in our day-to-day lives. Color adds excitement and interest to our sense of sight. We are delighted by the vibrant colors in a Matisse painting or the beauty of a forest in the fall. Color affects our emotions with hot reds, cool blues, soothing greens.

Winter, with its relative absence of color, evokes coldness, a barren time, while Spring, with its explosion of color, promises growth, beauty and renewal. By reproducing color in photography, paintings, printing or television, we bring excitement to that medium. But, what is color? How do we perceive it? How is it reproduced?