„colors of history“ is a visual investigation of the post world war II history. The series is focussed on historic events that had (and have) a major influence on humanity in general or the wellbeing of many.
For each such event, 100 images are determined with google image search, using the search algorythem "image type: photo" and "image size: big". The first 100 relevant results are downloaded (ignoring graphics and images that contain text).
These 100 images are scaled (to a minimum width/highth of 100/ 70 cm at 300dpi) and digitally superimposed in a way that each of the 100 initial images is represented in the resulting image with exactly 1%. The resulting image is a cloudy grey-ish color field that represents the compressed visual information about the respective historic event. The image title corresponds to the search term used.
