Philip Jones Griffiths
[Photojournalist, b. 1936, Rhuddian, Wales, d. 2008, London.]
Once the camera is loaded with colour film, the problems begin.
Paolo Pellegrin
[Photographer, b. 1964, Rome, lives in Paris.]
..the abstraction of black and white allows photography to speak in more symbolic terms. Color, sometimes, is all too real.
W.G Sebald
[Writer, b. 1944, Bavaria, Germany, d. 2001, East Anglia, England.]
I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.
Paul Simon
[Musician, b. 1941, Newark, New Jersey, lives in New York.]
Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors
Gives us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph
So momma, don’t take my Kodachrome away.
Gives us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph
So momma, don’t take my Kodachrome away.
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
[Singer, songwriter, and artist, b. 1941, Hibbing, Minnesota, lives in Malibu, California.]
I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, ‘Would you come see me tonight?’—and I’d have to answer truthfully, ‘No, I wouldn’t come. I’d rather be doin’ something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock’s gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)
Saul Leiter
[Photographer, b. 1923, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 2013, New York.]
I’m mystified that anyone thinks liking color is a bad thing.
René Burri
[Photographer, b. 1933, Zurich, Switzerland, d. 2014, Zurich.]
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
[Photographer, b. 1948, Tokyo, lives in New York.]
I live in the shadow... I like shadow, that’s why I became a black and white photographer.