Colour Theory examines the representation of landscape through colour, and more specifically through the intense red of Kodachrome film. From its invention in 1936, Kodachrome became a central tool for directing the gaze and structuring the image.
Drawing on archives from National Geographic, printed in four-colour risography to intensify Kodak hues, the publication analyses the role of red as both a visual and symbolic vector in the staging of landscape.
Human figures dressed in red, positioned against spectacular panoramas, reveal strategies of spatial hierarchy. Summed up by William Cowper’s quote, “Monarch of all I survey,” these dominant postures underscore how landscape is constructed as an ideological vision of territory, shaped by the gaze of the one who observes it.
