The Seduction of Color: Photographs from the Collection of Robert E. Jackson

by Robert E. Jackson

This new book by snapshot collector Robert E. Jackson features more than sixty color photos from his collection in a limited edition of 200 copies. Each photo has been reproduced to size, one to a page. The book contains images from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Jackson states in the “Color photography is contemporary because the past that is recorded and remembered is the same hue as our own. It is not associated with the gradations of gray and black or sepia tones of an earlier era. Color is now. It is both cool and hot at the same time.” This publication is a timely addition to the library of those who have an interest in the history of color photography, and to those who appreciate the variety, mystery, and humor that exist in amateur snapshot photography. Jackson has collected snapshots since 1997. In the fall of 2007, his collection was the subject of a show and catalogue entitled The Art of the American 1888—1978 which was on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. for nearly three months. In addition, over twenty of his photos were included in the 2011 bestselling young adult book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

88 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2012