[pure-silver] not so pure silver

I have a show coming up in Abilene about an adobe house in Presidio, TX. I have 12 black and white prints and I am fixing to get three color prints made. This is the first time I've had a show with color and b&w together, and I'm not sure how it's going to look, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Then I started thinking about another project I'm working on, which started out as b&w holga panoramas about domestic animals. Then I found some old color negs with the same format: Holga, animals. But they're color! Some of them are cool, though. So now I want to have that project be mixed color and B&W too.
The color ones have to be printed by a lab, because I don't print color at home and anyway some are transparencies. I guess I could make them gray scale and have them printed that way by the lab.
I'm just wondering: do people on this list think that it looks strange or disconcerting to have color and silver in the same show, by the same person? You see group shows all the time with them mixed up, but then you're not seeing all the pictures as one body of work. Maybe if one person did them all, and there are color and b&w, it means there are 2 bodies of work? I also am thinking of including some photogravures in the series about animals.
Once I saw a show in Houston by a photographer who had documented her mother's life over about 20 years. She had silver, color, video, everything. It didn't bother me at all. I wonder why we have this "rule" that you should have a "unified body of work."
Also I have noticed recently that filmmakers are mixing b&w and color in the same film: "I'm Not There" was like that, and "Shine a Light." 

--shannon



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