American Color
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American Color
Constantine Manos
As a showcase of the sundry layers of American society, Constantine Manos' curiosity for his country's diversity is presented in a set of saturated images that engage both eye and mind.
really nice to see some fresh colors
Comment posted by gunter bieringer (not verified) on August 9th, 2010
you have this posted as bruce gilden not manos. just an fyi
Comment posted by david weiss (not verified) on February 13th, 2010
What a great issue!
But, I remeber the original version is much longer than the current version and where can I find the original version?
Best Regards
Comment posted by morris (not verified) on December 28th, 2009
que crentes!!!!! não têm vergonha,tristeza --'
Comment posted by def (not verified) on December 11th, 2009
ta tudo lindo, agr XAU.
Comment posted by Kristo (not verified) on December 11th, 2009
Que linnnndoooo!!!! ta memo monito contenuem. tchau...
Comment posted by José Castelo Blanco (not verified) on December 11th, 2009
Olá, seu trabalho é incrível. tchau.
Comment posted by hoho (not verified) on December 11th, 2009
Lovely set of images...enjoyed them very much.
Cheers
Wolf189
Comment posted by Wolf189 (not verified) on July 4th, 2009
A photo very intriguing, expressive and full of vitality
Comment posted by Marco Negri (not verified) on June 17th, 2009
this is outstanding
thank you for sharing it here!
Comment posted by btezra (not verified) on April 13th, 2009
Mr Manos I am very impresed from your pictures , the cest I have ever seen in colour ,
pure art
Comment posted by evaggelos (not verified) on March 7th, 2009
congrats, wonderful in-motion
best Stefan
P.S. the ones done with M8 have more DOF, less feeling of space....
Comment posted by Stefan Rohner (not verified) on November 2nd, 2006
Constantine,
I want to congratulate you for the «slide show» I just finished looking at
and for the more than interesting meditation on the «value» of colour on photography.
The photographs themselves, each one of them, show the master hiding behind the camera!
Regards,
José Morais
Comment posted by José Morais (not verified) on November 3rd, 2006
Yes, the best work I've seen in years. Summing up the vision of many past masters, and going beyond, in a very nice an elegant portfolio. Congratulations.
Carlos Quijano
Colombia
Comment posted by Carlos Quijano (not verified) on November 3rd, 2006
Thanks for sharing. It was like walking through a guided tour of every photoworthy moment a day had to offer.
Comment posted by Robert (not verified) on November 3rd, 2006
this is really intriguing.
Comment posted by khairi (not verified) on November 6th, 2006
Framing, timing, lighting and...oh the color, what great work...
Comment posted by Martin Wentzell (not verified) on November 11th, 2006
hats off.... Master
Comment posted by :) (not verified) on November 13th, 2006
The fact that those pictures are equivalent to such a small fragment of a second makes them intriguing, though most of a good picture is luck (i belive) to frame that luck is something that I find brilliant and when is a work in colors then is just a fragment of time as it is, framed forever and turned into a eternal second, even if it is so insignificant it will always be there in a baloon hanging by a thin silk rope wich if it's pulled brakes inmediatly but if not, it is there for ever flotaing. Congratulations for creating such cautivous eternal spaces.
Comment posted by Jony (not verified) on November 14th, 2006
Having spent a considerable amount of time in Daytona I was really brought back to those days when viewing those photographs. There was one with a group of late teens on the beach in black and I thought, "Wow that could have been me!"
Comment posted by Lorraine (not verified) on November 14th, 2006
I think u can delete some photos from this Essay.there are to much photos.
Comment posted by payam (not verified) on November 14th, 2006
Of course I'm familiar with the work. I bought the book years ago...I often look at it...and looking at it here again, I realize that (for me) this set of pictures is one of the best color series ever made .... a real classic...
Comment posted by Per-Anders Pettersson (not verified) on November 15th, 2006
On an ordinary Wednesday morning you allowed me to stop and look.
Comment posted by Irene Belknap (not verified) on November 15th, 2006
Wonderful, stunning, moving - Thank you for sharing. I live in the UK but have spent many happy vacations on the east coast of Florida and feel I've seen some of these scenes myself.
Comment posted by Marc (not verified) on November 15th, 2006
It good to know you are out there. You do not imitate. You create a direct link between you and the world through your camera.
As a professional photographer I more and more experience that in my own work, but you have already opened that door much wider.
Congratulations
Frank
Comment posted by ngudu (not verified) on November 17th, 2006
Costa, these are amazing images. It's nice to see the additions since the book first published. Your energy and creativity shows through in the latest images.
Looking forward to seeing your next project.
--Marc (Rockport, ME '05)
Comment posted by Marc R (not verified) on November 21st, 2006
It is interesting to note that you refer to losing yourself at mid-life with
black and white imagery...I find that you just changed it to color...they still are black and white at heart...we all must find a way to keep shooting with out losing our way...I do it everyday.
Comment posted by michael ruggiero (not verified) on November 24th, 2006
As a young photographer this has had such an immense impact on me. I agree that a lot of photos being made now are so lifeless, sad, desaturated maybe because it is easier. These show the use of light and shadows to make photos that represent something real no matter what the emotion.
Comment posted by Nate Shepard (not verified) on November 27th, 2006
These are such beautiful photos that I can't help loving them,especially the light and shadow.
"American clolor",you change the view of America in a Chinese universiy student's eyes.
Comment posted by AO (not verified) on November 27th, 2006
I am intrigued by the use of space and the division of space around the apparent (subject/person/object) of the image. It makes the subject less dominant and more part of the environs. On the otherhand, the person/object of the image may only add scale to to the real subject of many of the images which is color, or spaces of hues, within the frame.
Which leads to the question - what is a colorful image? One with striking color or one with a lot of hues?
All in all I liked the presentation very much.
Comment posted by Darryl Jordan (not verified) on December 4th, 2006
After viewing this stunning body of work then reading some of the comments below, I am amazed that some people can't simply enjoy and celebrate this man's work.
Did these people not notice the Magnum logo up the lefthand corner?
Comment posted by Ralphie (not verified) on December 12th, 2006
Thanks for the great show.
Comment posted by Thomas (not verified) on December 24th, 2006
In this silence of watching your pictures and hearing what you tell me about yourself, many stories come too my mind.
And i was wandering and dreaming away. What a pleasure it brings to me.
Thank you a lot. The combination of watching and listening works wonderfull for me.
Comment posted by Harry op den Camp (not verified) on December 30th, 2006
I enjoyed your use of color,shadows, and music. Thank you for creating such complexity; yet simple fusions of color and music.
Comment posted by Jonathan Var (not verified) on January 20th, 2007
I admire your work. You succeed to get the same ambiancy and emotions that we can find in B&W in colour. It is for me a "tour de force". I would like to see the result in industrial and work ambiancies. What do you think of all the criticisms around the M8 ? Is it worth the price ?
Comment posted by Genevois Jean-Michel (not verified) on February 10th, 2007
I very much enjoyed the essay. As a black and white photographer I am struck by the compositional complexity you achieve with color elements--there are many photographs is this group that simply would not have worked in BW, not because the color itself is important, informative or interesting, but because the compositional organization would not have been there without it--color is providing structure and form in a way that is wonderful. You are, of course, also often using shadows similarly and that is quite interesting to me too.
So, thank you for the wonderful work.
Walt Odets
Comment posted by Walt Odets (not verified) on February 25th, 2007
Constantine,
Full Circle. Photography has finally come full circle. Pixels have sidetracked most of us from the pure art of photographing. Shooting film doesn't make much sense anymore for most of us. You've proven that we can have the best of both worlds...
The eye. What kind of life does it take to have an eye like yours? Compassionate, sensitive, risking, creative and extremely patient....
Your sense of composition, timing, frame management and color pallete
move us far beyond the expected visual experience.
Thanks for doing this. For sharing your vision with ours.... and for communicating how you go about it.
Thanks again,
Paul
Comment posted by Paul Childress (not verified) on March 16th, 2007
I couldn't tell you how much I was attracted by those colorful image with background voices which make all those pictures alive as if I was there.
Comment posted by Eric (not verified) on March 22nd, 2007
From the first time I saw the "Greek Portfolio" in my early twenties till now with the "American Color" in my middle fifties I've been trying to explain the key that opens such a magic in your photos.
I once wrote that the photographs are like the streamlets of water on both sides of the street on a rainy day. They bring with them "things" from somewhere else and take with them "things" to somewhere else.
Deep in my heart, this comes to be absolute with your photos.
Your photos travel their viewer to a world of imagination and then to a world of reality, back and forth, like a penullum ticking along the locii of the moments of our lives.
A Great Thank You for the magic moments you have given us so far.
God bless you.
Dimitris V, Georgopoulos
Athens, Greece
Comment posted by Dimitris V. Georgopoulos (not verified) on April 30th, 2007
I hate your photography. It is shit.
Comment posted by Lauren (not verified) on May 27th, 2007
I love it.
Comment posted by Mr. Ebeli (not verified) on May 27th, 2007
"American Color" is one of my favorite books, I hope to not have to wait too long for volume II and also hope that is as beautifully printed and has M8 pics as well!
Comment posted by Bob Casner (not verified) on May 28th, 2007
Beautiful. Sad I couldn't download for a friend or to see again.
Comment posted by cben (not verified) on June 6th, 2007
as the images turn, the mind can travel into its own reflective dialect, allowing the experience to relate back into your own reality.
Comment posted by sheila (not verified) on June 21st, 2007
I think each nation has its own distinguishable colors which somehow reflect unique mood/life of that nation. The "Amrican Color" photographs certainly capture the quintessential American colors.
Comment posted by Dan Le (not verified) on June 27th, 2007
Beautiful work, perfect colors, you have a master work, Constantine.
Comment posted by Alberto Quintal (not verified) on July 9th, 2007
Congratulations. This is a perfect work, I think that the perfect color is only with Kodak or Fuji film... but the M8 is incredible. Thank´s for your photo and your style, other point of vision for my world/work.
When you come to Spain and make a exhibition?. You will be welcome, you don´t doubt it
Comment posted by Javier Luengo (not verified) on August 10th, 2007
These are some of the scariest images I've ever seen collected. Constantine Manos combines the color and compositional complexity of Alex Webb with the sense of humor and irony (and compositional complexity) of Bruce Gilden. As a black-&-white devotee, this collection is THE most serious challenge I've ever had to my aesthetic sensibilities. (Are you trying to shove me into a mid-life crisis, Mr. Manos?) I hate you and I love you! (Excuse me now while I go gouge my eyes out in classical Greek fashion.)
Terry Carroll, terryspictures.com
Comment posted by Terry Carroll (not verified) on September 1st, 2007
America is really a bizarre place on earth and Constantine Manos captures this madness in a fantastic way. The strong colors gives the images a surreal touch, America - one big Disneyland !
Comment posted by Ken Pils (not verified) on September 20th, 2008




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