Tag: color chronicles

Color Chronicles: Deconstructing "Qing"
2018-05-18 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color Qing is a special color in China, one of the original traditional colors of the mainland. Lomography tries to understand the meaning of each complex color found in the gradient and what it means for most of us photographers.
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Color Chronicles: "Sakurairo" for a Spring Day
2018-04-28 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life, and Japan has its own color system to recognize. We introduce to you sakurairo, a Japanese traditional color that is named after the cherry blossoms of spring.
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Color Chronicles: Deconstructing "Scarlet"
2018-01-21 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color Scarlet is no mere orange-red hybrid hue; it's a passionate, haphazardous one. Lomography tries to understand the meaning of each complex color found in the gradient and what it means for most of us.
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Color Chronicles: Naples Yellow
2018-09-05 #culture

This yellow hue is one of the oldest yellows known to man and it's one of the longest, most used yellows in history.
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Color Chronicles: A Taste of Burgundy
2018-03-15

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color Scarlet is no mere orange-red hybrid hue; it's a passionate, haphazardous one. Lomography tries to understand the meaning of each complex color found in the gradient and what it means for most of us.
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Found in Translation: Xiá in the Sky
2018-09-06 #culture

Did you know? The rosy clouds you see before and after the golden hours have a name in China.
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Color Chronicles: Pomona of the Regency Era
2018-08-15 #culture

If you like watching film adaptations of Jane Austen's literary works, you might have already seen this dark apple green color more than once.
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Color Chronicles: Sang de Boeuf
2018-06-10 #culture

Colors mean differently from all walks of life. For this week's edition, we introduce the color Sang de Boeuf found din ancient Chinese art history.
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Color Chronicles: Cool Cobalt
2018-05-05 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color Cobalt is one of the oldest blues recorded in history. Lomography tries to understand the meaning of each complex color found in the gradient and what it means for most of us photographers.
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Color Chronicles: The World is in Cyan
2018-03-09 #news

Colors mean differently for all walks of life, but there are some that are just universally understood. Such is the color of cyan, the color of the vast horizon.
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Color Chronicles: Living in Viridian
2018-06-13 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color Viridian is a certain green favored by artists for its cool and fresh hue reminding them of springtime. Lomography tries to understand the meaning of each complex color found in the gradient and what it means for most of us photographers.
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Color Chronicles: Pure Coquelicot
2018-07-21 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. For this week we have coquelicot, a bright red named from the wild corn poppy. Lomography tries to understand the meaning of each complex color found in the gradient and what it means for most of us photographers.
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Color Chronicles: Deconstructing Indigo
2018-01-26 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color Indigo is one of the most historically rich colors, the meanings run deep. Lomography tries to understand the meaning of each complex color found in the gradient and what it means for most of us photographers.
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Color Chronicles: Paolo Veronese Green
2018-09-19 #culture

This particular viridian was named after a supreme Italian Renaissance colorist and is one of the most calming greens to look at.
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Color Chronicles: Cerulean is the Sky
2018-09-12 #culture

Cerulean is the blue hue that makes up the sky, and you might want to add this to your photographic palette.
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Color Chronicles: the Revered Maya Blue
2018-08-08 #culture

This ancient Mayan color is one of the rare blues that can stand the test of time.
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Color Chronicles: The Unusual Puce
written by cielsan on 2018-10-31 #culture

Another unique variation between purple and brown is added to our Lomographic palette. Today's color is called puce, stick around to hear about its interesting French history and relationship with fleas!
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Color Chronicles: Shifting Smalt
2018-10-24 #culture

This heartwarming hue changes color over time. Find our why this trippy tonal-shifting pigment is a among artists’ favorite blues.
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Color Chronicles: Patina Green
2018-07-14 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color Patina is a color that comes from aging, and we're here to discuss how this color morphs in real life.
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Color Chronicles: Eau de Nil
written by cielsan on 2018-10-26 #culture

This beautiful green that we're about to introduce to you is reminiscent of the ancient waters from the River Nile.
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Color Chronicles: The Name is Rose Madder
2018-08-22 #culture

We have many shades of red in our color spectrum, but for artists, rose madder is that one pigment that everyone must have in their palette.
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Color Chronicles: Perennial Pervenche
2018-07-07 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. Here, we're about to discuss pervenche, the known pastel blue violet whose name came from a flower.
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Color Chronicles: Glowing in Ochre
2018-03-25 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color of ochre makes the surface of the earth subtly majestic and mystifying with its deep golden-brown as if one walks on a land made out of gold.
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Color Chronicles: Imaginative Heliotrope
2018-10-13 #culture

Since being coined in ancient Greece Heliotrope has transcended its original meaning and roots and snuck its way into pop culture.
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Color Chronicles: The Fashionable Jonquil
2018-08-01 #culture

You've probably never heard of the bright jonquil, but before Europe's been swooning over violet and purples in the late 19th century, this yellow hue was "It".
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Color Chronicles: Chartreuse, a Dangerously Sweet History
2018-02-02 #culture

Colors mean differently for all walks of life. The color chartreuse is a vivid yellow-green, one that resembles lime and green apples, or the nuclear substance in the disaster movies. Such color is like a poisonous tango between sweetness and danger, isn’t it?
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Color Chronicles: Original Orpiment
2018-09-30 #culture

For this week’s color study, we have the ancient orange-yellow which our ancestors often mistook as ‘gold’.
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