Contrast
February 21, 2008
A beautiful photo by Tina Tyrell, who photographed the previously mentioned monochromatic fashion series for New York Magazine. I love how the shadow that forms a triangle in the top right corner is a complementary violet to the yellow wood detail that it overlaps. All the colours of the spectrum are in this photo—red seat, orange figure on the book, yellow hair and wood, green plant, blue shirt, violet shadow—yet they exist in harmony and don’t compete for attention. The star of the photo is the brilliant light itself, and its stark contrast against the shadows it casts—areas completely void of colour.
