There is stark contrast with the white negative shapes created around ... With Icarus, is the black figure a positive shape against a blue background? Or is the dominant blue colour a positive ...

Positive, negative, slides, reversal ... that is. Whether color or black and white, the most common type of film ...

the young woman in white and the older woman in black take up positive space. The green land they are on and the dark blue sea behind them suggest negative space. The figures are positioned to the ...