ELEMENTS

The project contains images, mostly from my recent project "Elements", which was dedicated to colors, their meaning and symbolic perception in different cultures. As Michel Pastoureau wrote in "Blue": The History of a Color: “... any history of colors must first of all be a social history. For the historian – as well as for the sociologist and the anthropologist – color is defined first of all as a social phenomenon. It is the society that “makes” the color, that gives it its definitions and meanings, that constructs its codes and values, that organizes its customs and determines its stakes. It is not the artist or the scholar; neither is it biological apparatus or the spectacle of nature. The problems of color are always social problems because humans do not live alone but in societies.”