[LRflex] Re: Power of B&W?
- From: bob palmieri <rpalmier@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:24:14 -0500
Ted -
Are you referring to people pictures, news photos or all subjects?
Bob Palmieri
On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
> Power of the B&W Image?
>
> I have always believed in the power of black and white photography even
> when it wasn't in vogue for a couple of decades.
>
> Recently while watching a TV program produced from B&W stills of
> President
> John F. Kennedy it merely strengthened my resolve, that there isn't
> anything more powerful than black and white photography, whether in
> print
> or TV!
>
> The message from this program was the immense power of B&W imagery.
> There
> isn't any argument whatsoever of the intellectual intensity in the
> Black
> &White photograph. Simply because, it's all "content"!
>
> What you see is what you get!
>
> There are no frivolous colors to distract; the content is the
> motivation of
> each picture. I have no problem with colour, the point is, B&W creates
> more
> decisive images than colour.
>
> Colour is sensual. Black and white is intellectual!
> Think of it in this manner: When you photograph people in colour; you
> photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and
> white; You photograph their souls!
>
> Colour TV has contributed to people becoming immune to violence, as the
> 6 o'clock "news reality" and the TV "shoot 'em up sitcom" look the
> same!
> Because of colour TV and printed pages of the past 25 years, a
> generation
> of viewers have become basically immune to the "content impact" of the
> black and white look of life in relation to human beings.
>
> The impact of the B&W photograph will always be here, simply because of
> what it does; touch our mental emotions. If that were not the case,
> then
> many manufacturers, Calvin Kline, Mercedes and IBM to name a few,
> wouldn't
> be using Black and White imagery to promote their products!
>
> Black and white is intellectual. It makes us think!
> What think you folks?
>
> ted
> tedgrantphoto.com
>
>
>
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