Nostalgia can blind us to what powerful color tools we have in the present.
While these images are black and white do they really have any additional power
that was missing from the color images I posted yesterday?
Or do we let the trappings of a bygone era mandate our presentations in
the moment because it's too much trouble to figure out how to
make color exciting?
Or...If Ansel Adams and Edward Weston had the best of the new
digital cameras would they have shown us an even better way to
photograph by adding color to their unique visions?
I think they would be all over the color stuff....
YMMV.
Excellent shots.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel it's a binary thing. Somethings look better in b&w and others in colour. It depends on what you are trying to say. If you only see things as commodities then colour is probably the go too.
ReplyDeleteThe colour I have seen from AA was universally boring. His compositions worked best in b&w imho. I would imagine Weston's would have been better. He was a more sensual guy.
Eric
Yes. And a boring photo is a boring photo in either color or B&W. Kirk is not really trying here.
DeleteThe other question is, are there photos to which color doesn't add anything valuable? Would Capa's Omaha Beach photos be better in color? Starkness sometimes is its own message.
ReplyDeleteYou're putting a lot of pressure on those 4 photos.
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