Black Quote by Ansel Adams

In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your…

— Anders Petersen

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

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation.…

— Clyde Butcher

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

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

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

— Peter Schjeldahl

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

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

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

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

— Sarah Moon

Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see,…

— Peter C Bunnell

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