Photograph with one spot of red

December 4, 2013 9:47 AM

Looking for a photograph I once saw: rural winter scene, nearly monochrome — the farm fences and whatnot were black wood — but with one spot of colour, something red in the hands of someone walking in the centre of the scene.

I always had the idea that the bit of red was a jar of jam or something, and that the scene was Russian (maybe because of the style of hat?), but I'm not at all sure I'm right about these.

posted by stebulus to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Response by poster: Forgot to mention: all the farm fences and whatnot were black wood, but everything else was white, because snow.
posted by stebulus at 9:49 AM on December 4, 2013 [1 favorite]

Maybe spend some time looking at Tin Eye Labs Multicolr Search Lab to search Creative Commons images on Flickr. You tell it to look for images with certain colors and can specify percentage of each color in the images. Post back if you happen to find it. Sounds like a cool photo.
posted by Beti at 11:25 AM on December 4, 2013 [2 favorites]

Not a photo, but IIRC there was a scene in the film "Schindler's List" like this. It's been a while, but I think it was a girl carrying a flower, or similar?
posted by aecorwin at 4:27 PM on December 4, 2013

Response by poster: IIRC there was a scene in the film "Schindler's List" like this

Yes, there is, from 1:08 to 1:10, roughly, but it's not the image I'm after, I'm afraid.
posted by stebulus at 4:47 PM on March 10, 2014