Silver halide photographic emulsion and light-sensitive material containing the same, and image-forming method using thereof

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, which comprises at least, on a support, a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent, and a compound capable of forming a dye by coupling reaction with an oxidized product of the developing agent, wherein 50% or more of a projected area of silver halide particles contained in at least one of the silver halide emulsions is occupied by tabular particles having a particle thickness of 0.3 μm or less, wherein the silver halide particles contained in the emulsion contain a polynuclear metal complex in which an organic compound is contained as a bridging ligand, wherein the amount of complex compound is within the range of 1×10−7 mol or more and not more than 1×10−3 mol, per mol of silver halide, and wherein the polynuclear metal complex in which an organic compound is contained as a bridging ligand is a compound represented by the following formula A:

• [L′nM(L(ML′m)j)k]l Formula A
• wherein M represents an arbitrary metal or metal ion, and all of Ms may be the same metal species or Ms may be a different metal species;
• L is a bridging ligand and represents an organic compound capable of bridging two or more metals or metal ions;
• L′ represents an inorganic compound of no electric charge having atoms of 8 or less, an arbitrary organic compound, or an arbitrary inorganic anion, and all of L's may be the same chemical species or L's may be a different chemical species, with the proviso that when some of the L's are arbitrary inorganic anions, the inorganic anions occupy not more than half of coordinate sites out of the coordinate sites of one metal;
• n is an integer of 1 to 5, m is an integer of 0 to 5, j is an integer of 1 to 4, k is an integer of 1 or more and l represents an electric charge of the whole complex.