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- Tried and tested by time, the black and white aesthetics remain as top photographers' favorites. It's not overrated, and it never was. It's easy to see why many of your favorite photographers, such as Roger Ballen and Sebastião Salgado remain loyal to the palette.
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Dec 2, 2014 · Shooting with black and white film predominantly for the last 6 months has been one of the single most important aspects of my photographic development this last year.
Apr 17, 2015 · 18 April 2015. ALAMY. Film photography was supposed to have been killed off by the digital era - but a committed band of enthusiasts refuse to abandon the traditional camera. Stephen Dowling...
Here's a curated list of the most famous black and white photographers from the past and present. Each photographer uses predominantly black and white film to capture iconic images.
- Tammy Danan
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Steinbeck’s iconic 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel finds the perfect director to adapt it in the great John Ford. bringing the Joad clan to life during the Dust Bowl-era in a film of unforgettable passion and power.
- The Third Man (1949) Something of a compendium of film noir technique, Carol Reed’s The Third Man is, as New York Times movie critic Bosley Crowther wrote “a brilliantly packaged bag of cinematic tricks, [showing Reed’s] whole range of inventive genius for making the camera expound.
- Rashômon (1950) This lyrical and legendary masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa tells the judiciously straight-forward tale of Tajōmaru, a bandit (Toshiro Mifune) who’s charged with murdering a Samurai (Masayuki Mori) and then raped his wife (Machiko Kyo).
- Manhattan (1979) Filmed in beautiful black-and-white and 2.35:1 widescreen by Gordon Willis, writer-director Woody Allen’s valentine to New York City is a visual feast.
Mar 1, 2021 · Black and white film still has the ability to inspire passion and creativity in its users, even in this digital age. We talk to three photographers who continue to embrace the medium in very different ways, and still shoot black and white film.
Sep 28, 2021 · Ever since the advent of color film in 1958, black and white photography has become nostalgic. Present-day photographers can use it to create a retro look. But it’s not an easy style to work with.
2. Distractions. Color can be distracting from what’s going on. The eye is attracted to color. So if the color is part of the subject, great. But frequently it’s not, it visually complicates a ...
