Shel Sadly this is true (the B&W stuff). I am, however, quite surprised that black and white have lasted this long. Colour photography was invented app. 100 years ago. So, it has taken 100 years to out-compete black and white photography. That's really quite amazing. I still think it has a future. Not for every mans everyday pictures. But for art work.
When painting started taking off (a thousand years ago??) one of the objects was to make realistic paintings. Just before photography was invented, the painters started using lenses to project images on to the canvas. This way it became easy to paint realistic portraits etc. Since photography took over the realistic stuff, painters have invented all the abstract styles of painting, which photographers couldn't really accomplish. I guess what I'm trying to say is, that since colour photography has become every mans possession (digital is easy and very cheap), black and white photography will surely survive (if at all) as an art form. All the best Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Peter J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 13. december 2004 19:28 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: The film is dead Many of those researgentes don't know what B&W is, so they use chromogenic B&W film and color materials. Yesterday I was at a local art supply and framing store, a customer was having a B&W print from a "Professional" photographer framed. It was printed on color material and had a decidedly red cast to it. But it was monochrome, (well sort of if you squinted your eyes and didn't engage your brain). Shel Belinkoff wrote: >OTOH, we are now seeing, it seems, a resurgence in B&W. Maybe I'm reading >it all wrong, but in my mind, the signs are there. New films have come >out, old ones seem to be ressurected and given a new push, some recent >articles have appeared in various places touting B&W. So, maybe there's >some hope yet. Or maybe I'm a dreamer. > >Shel > > > > >>[Original Message] >>From: William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > > > > >>My own thought (I realize that I may be wrong, I only work in the >>film processing industry so I doubt if I have a clue about the >>direction the industry will go, I am only viewing trends) is that the >>consumer film industry is pretty much dead in the water in a leaky >>ship with a busted bilge pump. >>The ship is going down, and there isn't anything that is going to >>stop it from happenning. >>The pro film sector is a barge tied to the leaky ship, and when the >>ship sinks, it will take pro film with it, since one is towing the >>other along. >> >>William Robb >> >> >> > > > > > -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
