Black and white Quote by Astrid Kirchherr

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

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

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

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

— Sarah Moon

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

Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But…

— Jay Maisel

Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a…

— Jack Lowden

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

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

— Joel Sternfeld

Media today is even more black and white, then early photography ever was

— Loesje