Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material and image forming method

An image forming method comprising:

• a step of imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material having, on a support, photographic constituent layers comprising at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye forming coupler, at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye forming coupler, at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler, and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer;
• a color developing step;
• a bleach-fixing step;
• and
• a rinsing step,
• wherein:
• at least one of the at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one compound represented by the following general formula (IA);
• and
• the bleach-fixing step is conducted under the conditions that an average replacement rate Ta for a bleach-fixing solution is 12.0 or less and an opening degree K of a bleach-fixing bath is 0.007 (cm−1) or less,
• wherein R′ and R″ each independently represent a substituent;
• and Z represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being removed by coupling reaction with an oxidant of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent.