Though Okuefuna, who executive-produced the companion BBC documentary, maintains in his introduction that The Dawn of the ColorPhotograph is primarily a picture book, in typical British fashion he sells himself and this extraordinary volume short.
But the researchers found that many of the participants completely avoided asking their partners about the skin color of the person in the photograph especially when paired with a black partner.
The 4-by-6-foot colorphotograph of a wintry outdoor scene portrays a woman in a fur coat staring up at an apartment building where a water leak has cascaded down the cement facade and hardened into a frozen waterfall.
Mr. Fischer has painted the surface with a faded pale blue hue, a gradient of color he distilled from a landscape photograph using Photoshop, a computer program he employs in much of his work.