[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

Hi Shannon,

I'd mix color and B&W prints if their message go together otherwise it may look 
a bit weird.
If you mix them, then you'd better to keep the other aspect elements (print 
size, framing, ...) similar, not to add more visual confusion.

But there is no definitive rule here, put the prints close to each other and 
see if it works ...


Good luck with your exhibition,
Claudio Bonavolta
http://www.bonavolta.ch


----- Message d'origine -----
De: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:27:44 -0500
Sujet: [pure-silver] not so pure silver
À: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

>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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