Why Bees Do Not See Red and We Sometimes Feel Blue

"Interesting...useful for photographers as a reference book." --Amateur Photographer ?Has pink always been feminine and blue a man's colour? Why are we green with envy? Which colour is most expensive and who is the Goddess of Turquoise? Looking for answers, author Joanna Zoelzer has come across remarkable and entertaining facts about colours. In this beautiful coffee table book, we traverse the colour spectrum with 150 remarkable stories of our experience, understanding and theories of colour. With insights from art, nature, psychology and science, this is an amusing, entertaining, and vibrant journey through the cultural history of colour.

Joanna Zoelzer was born in Katowice/Poland and studied graphic design at the Faber-Castell Academy in Stein near Nuremberg. She discovered her fascination for colour early on and has been working intensively on the subject ever since. She works as a freelance graphic designer, typographer and artist and lives in Ismaning near Munich.