Agfacolor

2018 – 2019
Agfacolor series by contemporary artist Carsten Becker

Agfacolor is a slide film that made color photography possible, starting in the late 1930s. Color photographs of German propaganda troops, researched in archives, form the basis of the Agfacolor series. Enlarged sections of these photos explore the colors of World War II. Scratches on the slides, archival dust and color defects caused by aging of the film material become image-forming elements.