I don't know what it is
that makes black and white photography so appropriate for capturing the wide open spaces of the States, but for me it is up there with «Hud» or «The Last Picture Show», both also elegies for vital qualities that have been undermined or lost.
Not exact matches
She
makes me love
black and white photography so much.
The
black and white display together with slightly less screen refresh rates compared to conventional LCD panels wouldn't have
made the InkPhone suited for
photography in any case.
Does street
photography seem
made for
black and white?
Dennis Hopper's The Lost Album, a collection of the late actor's poignant
black -
and -
white photography on view now at L.A.'s Kohn Gallery through September 1, was
made possible by two key actors: his Rebel Without a Causecostar James Dean, who encouraged him to try his hand behind the camera (albeit as a director),
and his first wife, Brooke Hayward, who bought him a Nikon mirror flex in 1961.
The Brazilian - born artist works with
photography and painting to
make mixed - media artworks that take cues from John Baldessari's renowned dot works by painting circles
and geometric lines over
black -
and -
white photographs of landscapes.
Initially
made from personal photographs produced for the purpose of painting
and then later using sourced imagery, Mark Roeder's ongoing collection of
black and white Antipaintings mine the unique
and complicated relationship between
photography and subjectivity.
They include Li Pinghu, Tang Maohong
and Birdhead — a
photography duo
made up of the artists Ji Weiyu
and Song Tao, who take atmospheric
black -
and -
white photographs of their native Shanghai.
It features: a series of
black -
and -
white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic
and opera
photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that
make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time;
and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements
and symbolic props, gestures,
and costumes.
Trained as a chemical engineer
and a medical doctor, Porter began his career in
photography in the early 1930s by
making black -
and -
white prints in his spare time while working as a bacteriologist
and teaching at Harvard University.
In the fall of 1976, Kruger abandoned art
making and moved to Berkeley, where she taught at the University of California for four years
and steeped herself in the writings of Walter Benjamin
and Roland Barthes.She took up
photography in 1977, producing a series of
black -
and -
white details of architectural exteriors paired with her own textual ruminations on the lives of those living inside.
A quote from Title Magazine's Deborah Krieger, Inside Voices, at first glance, might seem to be
made up of rather disparate media:
black and white photography by Tamsen Wojtanowski
and textiles by C. Pazia Mannella.
Through her
photography — stark
black -
and -
white, gelatin silver prints — the artist has
made a record of the people who inhabit these post-industrial landscapes: herself, her mother, her grandmother, her mother's boyfriend, her extended social network, people who have survived decades of grueling work, as well as globalization, de-industrialization
and a drug war.
Although Wool is known principally for his painting, he has also
made his mark in
black -
and -
white photography, taking a large number of photographs at night in New York City, around the Lower East Side
and Chinatown.
Their monochrome tones also suggest
and make reference to archival
black and white photography,
and the timelessness of their subject matter.
While the filter of time
and familiarity, the abstraction of
black -
and -
white photography,
and the softer focus
and smaller scale of earlier photographic processes have
made these images less shocking, they remain commanding in terms of formal qualities
and content.
These were
made by placing three different
black -
and -
white photographs into Adobe Photoshop's red, green,
and blue color channels, thus yielding a multilayered color image similar to double exposures in analog
photography.
2014: Richard Avedon: People - the art of
black /
white portrait
photography 2014: Guy Grey - Smith: Art As Life - WA landscape painter 2014: William Kentridge - The Refusal of Time 2013: Van Gogh, Dali
and Beyond: The World Reimagined - 20 century art 2013:
Made to Remember - Indigenous Art 2013: Picturing New York: Photographs from MOMA - Alfred Stieglitz, plus Cartier - Bresson, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman.
There is something inherently different about
black and white photography that can
make a mundane image look more interesting.
CONGRATULATIONS to every blogger that has
made this Top
Black and White Photography Blogs list!
Accessories that would
make it pop include
black -
and -
white photography,»60s - inspired prints
and large, bold graphics.»
Photography by Stacey Brandford Golden glamour
Make a statement with the combination of bright
white, warm brass
and sultry
black.
A sleek
black and white colour scheme paired with a feature wall of
photography makes for a super modern magazine maven's headquarters.
Black and white photography makes a bold, iconic statement.
We love how this room has been styled: an eclectic mix of
black -
and -
white artwork, from
photography to vintage adverts, behind the bed
makes a focal point, while touches such as the bed head — crafted from knotty reclaimed timber — evoke a blissfully relaxed air.