Carol Henry

Carol Henry is a darkroom artist who has spent decades making unique prints on Cibachrome paper without a camera and film. She has been represented in 34 galleries and 200 exhibitions with her camera-less technique. Henry calls her darkroom prints "Florachromes" and "Shadowgraphs," and they owe to a process she developed when receiving a BFA from Northern Michigan University in photography. Henry has also studied at the University of Cincinnati and UCLA. She spent over three years as the fine print specialist for the Ansel Adams Gallery for Ansel’s signed originals and was a three-year artist-in-residence at Studio Channel Islands Art Center. Henry is a charter member of Women in Photography International and is currently the photography director at Carmel Visual Arts. Her work is widely collected both nationally and internationally and is in many permanent and corporate collections. Henry is especially interested in healthcare environments and the healing qualities of her imagery.

(Biography provided by Weston Gallery)

Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.

The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.

Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.

Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.

In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.