In the 1960s, color was absent from museums. Considered commercial, it was reserved for fashion and advertising. It was used to record family celebrations and vacations. Black and white was true photography. Yet for Meyerowitz, the world was in color and should be photographed as such.
Wherever he went, he'd always be accompanied by a dozen rolls of film and two different cameras, photographing the same scene in black and white and in color. The result is A Question of Color, a project in which he juxtaposes the same image, one in monochrome, the other in color. It's the same people, the same activity, the same place - in short, the same photographs, with one difference: "In black and white, you'd never know that this girl is wearing a red bathing suit, or that the dog is white when she's black. Color is a mine of information."
