"As is well known, viewing a color photograph is different from looking at a black-and-white one. Film theorist Stanley Cavell has noted that both in photographs and in movies, black-and-white pictures are psychologically perceived as documents of completed action. The motifs in color photographs, however, appear to be from the present, or even in a certain sense from the future. They are less burdened with the labor of memory, and are therefore easier to approach. As source material for scholarship, they are more exact, because the colors of the period concerned are reproduced. Since color photographs are one stage less abstract than black-and-white ones, they seem to us to be more concrete and to have a more direct connection with the world."
I read this today when trying to write an essay for Art144. This view on color vs b&w film photography is perfectly described in this paragraph.I really feel like this is 100% relevant to my work right now.Being that I love black and white photography and I shoot 80% of my work film, I usually am having a conflict of b&w over color. I have this conflict because I love color film, but these days it is so hard to keep it totally pure. By pure I mean, Take the picture, process the negatives,develop photos all your self. And with the society that we have, and the advanced in technology I feel that it is hard for me to do something that is not totally pure. So I stick to b&w for the most part which is a more serious and abstract photograph. I hope I get to shoot color film and use a color lab sometime. It is a true art.
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