Abstract Quote by 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 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

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

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

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

— Sarah Moon

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

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

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

...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

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

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world,…

— Michael Kenna