Best photography & black-and-white Quotes

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”

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Book:Robert Frank

Source: Robert Frank

“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.”

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Author:Jose Parla

“Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.”

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Author:John Sexton

“Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.”

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Author:William Eggleston

“Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.”

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Author:Nobuyoshi Araki

“In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.”

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Author:Anders Petersen

“To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.”

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Author:Rene Burri

“I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.”

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Author:Sarah Moon

“In black and white you suggest, in color you state.”

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Book:Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs

Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs

“In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.”

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Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.”

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Author:Erica Tazel

“Every once in a while I have this revelation like, "Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn't black and white." It was in color. Photographed in a certain way, people look from another time. We are just not used to seeing ourselves in that context. Something that's fascinating about photography is you can isolate a moment, tear it out of its context, and see it afresh. Another realization is that, "Wow, there's a big world out there, and people are still doing all sorts of the things that they used to do." We don't just live in iPad land.”

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Author:Alec Soth

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”

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Book:Robert Frank

Source: Robert Frank

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.”

“When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!”

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Author:Ted Grant

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.”

“I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.”

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Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.”

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Book:The role of the artist in conservation

Source: The role of the artist in conservation

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