For nearly two decades David Batchelor has been photographing
found white monochrome panels of posters, signs, timetables etc in London and other cities in the UK and all over the world, from Glasgow, Berlin, Stockholm, Madrid, New York, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Hong Kong and Shanghai among others.
Not exact matches
Black and
white monochrome will never go out of date, you only need to
find new ways to update the style.
Have to
find a pair of
white jeans though, want to go
monochrome!
Other ideas: A
monochrome look, with a contrasting neutral vest (think
white underneath with a tan vest) looks expensive, but can be
found at almost any price point.
An interim solution was
found in the three - color - ink display which operates similarly to the
monochrome one, the only difference being that a third pigment is added to the black and
white particles of the EPD film.
This is the period of her most recognisable works, the Accumulation sculptures, in which paint ceases to be an object and
finds itself in the domain of sculpture, with an abundance of phallic appendices, and the Infinity nets, large extensions of polka dots that continue to make use of
white monochrome.
Found Monochromes is a collection of photographs taken by Batchelor over a 20 year period, of single square and rectangular
white planes and panels encountered on walks through cities from London to São Paulo.
This reinterpretation of the classic image has involved Murdoch in a painstaking process of
finding props, clothes and black and
white stage make - up in order to produce a
monochrome image on a colour film.
Mira Gojak, Portrait of Sonny Beau
White, 2012
monochrome steel, Carrara marble and
found objects Private collection, Melbourne
Some even go as far as theorizing that «moderate»
monochrome IR photography3 may become the de facto standard in landscape black and
white photography, as
finding truly crisp and clear days is getting more and more difficult.»
A swipe to the right brings up the settings menu, while camera modes such as
monochrome (black and
white), Beauty, slow - mo, panorama, light painting and HDR can be
found by swiping to the right.
A gold - framed mirror
found in a junk shop has been spray - painted
white to fit in with a
monochrome palette.