Comments on: Bringing Back a Black-and-White World

By: runasim

runasim — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:00:01 +0000

I really appreciated B&W art photography, as it is different from just photos in B&W. That medium had a special quality that can't be replicated with color.

Ingmar Berman's movies provided their most dramatic and impressive moments precisely because they were shot in B&W. I can't imagine Diane Arbus producing the same quality of work if she had used color photography.

Sometimes less (in this case, color) really is more.

By: DLS

DLS — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:32:45 +0000

I've disagreed with Mr. Stein in the past but he brought us a good subject this time.

Yes, Mike P, available-light B&W is a lost art. I do have a 35 mm SLR with a nice faster-than-f2.0 standard-focal-length lens I do plan to bring to my favorite St. Louis restaurant and wine bar that has live entertainment, some day.

http://www.vothphoto.com/spotlight/articles/forgotten_...

By: Mike_P

Mike_P — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:26:39 +0000

Available light B&W photography is fast becoming a lost art, it seems. What with Photoshop and digital cameras, “push processing,” and wet lines are fading artifacts of a bygone era.

By: elrod

elrod — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:24:19 +0000

Give it a rest, Silhouette.

These pictures are amazing. I was just in Memphis a month ago and the old Sun Studios stands out like a monument. I didn't get a chance to see the Stax Records museum, however. The two of those studios produced the greatest music of the 20th century. Nothing makes me prouder to live in Tennessee than the music. We've got bluegrass and Americana/alt.country here in East Tennessee, country and gospel in Nashville, and blues, rock and roll and soul in Memphis.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:44:47 +0000

Why is there such a focus on returning to the eras that had the most racial tensions? Lately that's all you see on TV. It's as if someone is mad that people are getting along and prejudice is being buried....

Weird.. Who would want to revive old wounds and why? What "profit" could there be in fanning the flames of an almost-dead fire?

Why revist that era? Why now?

Even here on this website we hear the constant pounding drum of "Civil Rights Roundup". And now this more daring nudge to revisit old devisiveness.

So much focus on differences and skin color. So little focus on common goals. So little focus on what really makes people who they are...I'm beginning to wonder if this stalwart focus on apartheid isn't purposeful? And if so, what is it's purpose?