Solarization (photography)
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For the photographic effect involving exposure during development in the darkroom, see Sabattier effect. For other uses, see Solarization (disambiguation).
In photography, solarization is the effect of tone reversal observed in cases of extreme overexposure of the photographic film in the camera. Most likely, the effect was first observed in scenery photographs including the sun. The sun, instead of being the whitest spot in the image, turned black or grey. For instance, Minor White's photograph of a winter scene, The Black Sun 1955,[1] was a result of the shutter of his camera freezing in the open position, producing severe overexposure.[2][3][4] Ansel Adams had also earlier created a solarized sun image, titled Black Sun, Owens Valley, California, 1939, by overexposure.[5]