The New Color
B+W: The New Color
Black and white photography seems to be reemerging.
Daniel Cooney notes in Focus Fine Art Photography Magazine (December 2007), "Something I have begun to notice lately is the reemergence of black and white photography in contemporary art. While it might not be considered a "trend," I am starting to see a trickle of black and white images by working artists."
He goes on to state, " No matter how they are made, it seems that we might be seeing more black and white photographs in the world of contemporary art. It's only natural after many years of color work increasingly becoming more saturated, brighter and bigger that artists would start to engage with the subtleties that a black and white image reveals. It is a refreshing to look at an approach that some have forgotten. Perhaps with the combination of technology and creative minds the "new" black and white will be something totally unexpected and truly new.
Charlotte Cotton states in her essay The New Color: The Return of Black and White, "I am sure I'm not alone in beginning to think that the more complex, messy, unfashionable and broad territory of black and white photography is where we are going to find some of the grist to the mill in photography's substantive and longer term positioning within art."