[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

I was thinking about this idea of showing black and white first. Otherwise the black and white images might look sort of pitiful compared to the vivid color. Sorry to say that, but it could be true for some viewers.
The adobe show opens at the Abilene center for contemporary art on October 1, in case anybody is in the area. It's about a woman named Simone Swan and her work. She and the adobe alliance build adobe houses with adobe vault roofs. 

--shannon


On Mar 27, 2009, at 10:16 AM, William Harting wrote:
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:
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." 

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