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Published: December 15, 2006
Black and white photography has a long-standing tradition of being considered a fine art form within the artistic community.
Even when the world of photography was inundated with color photography in the 1960s and 1970s or with digital photography today, black and white photography remained the foundation for all photographic artistic production.
Ansel Adams and his contemporaries created some of the best-known black and white landscape photography in the first half of the 20th century. Adams belonged to a group of photographers known as Aperture 64, which referred to the aperture at which landscape photographers could achieve the highest depth of field, and thereby create clear, crisp beautiful pictures.
Imogen Cunningham, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand are other members of Aperture 64. Some argue each photographer produced some of the finest images in black and white photography to date. Today, their museum-housed images are heralded as fine art.
Many lovers and aficionados of black and white photography may be unaware of the practices of this medium 60 to 70 years ago. Instant cameras were not nearly as commercial as they are now; to create notable photography, one had to immerse oneself in the art.
Back then, black and white films and papers were processed in large bathing trays. Photographers like Edward Weston acquired an array of sicknesses and anomalies from extended and prolonged exposure to photographic chemicals.
Since then, photographic techniques have more or less changed for the better. Now that art critics have embraced digital photography as an artistic form of media, digital photography can create masterfully clear fine art.
What is most intriguing about black and white photography is its propensity to traipse the line between fine art and consumer-driven media. At one point, black and white photography created by 'anonymous' photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries served as an anthropological tool. During this time period, photographs visually recorded information about the culture.
Even today, anonymous people use photography in a variety of ways for their own pleasure. For example, wedding photography is, and always will be, a lucrative business for professional photographers. Even though wedding photography serves as a visual record for a newlywed couple, decades from now, the images and photographs produced from a wedding portfolio will probably be regarded as anthropological cornerstones defining current culture.
This feat will be more widespread because of digital photography. Digital media probably will outlast analog media and since it finally is less expensive than analog media, a wider audience will embrace black and white photography.
Black and white photography still is a popular art form. It will continue to embrace all manner of techniques, including wedding or landscape photography done in black and white, digital or analog.
Sources:
Photography. 9 December 2006. Wikipedia. 13 December 2006. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/photography/
Black and White Photography. 11 December 2006. Photography.com. 13 December 2006. http://photography.com/black-and-white.php/
Even when the world of photography was inundated with color photography in the 1960s and 1970s or with digital photography today, black and white photography remained the foundation for all photographic artistic production.
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Ansel Adams and his contemporaries created some of the best-known black and white landscape photography in the first half of the 20th century. Adams belonged to a group of photographers known as Aperture 64, which referred to the aperture at which landscape photographers could achieve the highest depth of field, and thereby create clear, crisp beautiful pictures.
Imogen Cunningham, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand are other members of Aperture 64. Some argue each photographer produced some of the finest images in black and white photography to date. Today, their museum-housed images are heralded as fine art.
Many lovers and aficionados of black and white photography may be unaware of the practices of this medium 60 to 70 years ago. Instant cameras were not nearly as commercial as they are now; to create notable photography, one had to immerse oneself in the art.
Back then, black and white films and papers were processed in large bathing trays. Photographers like Edward Weston acquired an array of sicknesses and anomalies from extended and prolonged exposure to photographic chemicals.
Since then, photographic techniques have more or less changed for the better. Now that art critics have embraced digital photography as an artistic form of media, digital photography can create masterfully clear fine art.
What is most intriguing about black and white photography is its propensity to traipse the line between fine art and consumer-driven media. At one point, black and white photography created by 'anonymous' photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries served as an anthropological tool. During this time period, photographs visually recorded information about the culture.
Even today, anonymous people use photography in a variety of ways for their own pleasure. For example, wedding photography is, and always will be, a lucrative business for professional photographers. Even though wedding photography serves as a visual record for a newlywed couple, decades from now, the images and photographs produced from a wedding portfolio will probably be regarded as anthropological cornerstones defining current culture.
This feat will be more widespread because of digital photography. Digital media probably will outlast analog media and since it finally is less expensive than analog media, a wider audience will embrace black and white photography.
Black and white photography still is a popular art form. It will continue to embrace all manner of techniques, including wedding or landscape photography done in black and white, digital or analog.
Sources:
Photography. 9 December 2006. Wikipedia. 13 December 2006. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/photography/
Black and White Photography. 11 December 2006. Photography.com. 13 December 2006. http://photography.com/black-and-white.php/
