[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

I once read advice saying to keep black and white images together and color
images together and show the black and white first in a presentation.

I usually ignore this, though sometimes it seems correct.

Congratulations on the show, hope you will post it in due course.

-bill h

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Shannon Stoney <
shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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