Black Quote by Anders Petersen

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar…

— Roger Ballen

Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a…

— Astrid Kirchherr

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't…

— Edward Weston

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

— Sarah Moon

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being…

— Ansel Adams

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

— Robert Frank

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not…

— Ansel Adams

The whole basis of working in black and white and grays became the basis of my understanding of color, because it's all about tone,…

— David Small

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette…

— Martin Parr

For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It…

— Michael Kenna

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's…

— David Lynch