The Color in Black & White
We might associate colors with how we feel. Mostly, the effect of color on our daily lives is subtle. Alternatively, a brilliant red sunset or a dark grey-blue sky can stimulate vivid emotions.
Like color images, shapes, shades, textures, tones, and light are essential in black-and-white or monochrome photographs. When I choose the colors in my pictures, I am predetermining the emotional direction of the image. With a black-and-white print, depending on your reaction emotionally, you paint in your colors.
The photographs below are a selection of images from this exhibit. It was My Picture Tells A Story’s first public showing. Along with 30 other pictures, the first six stories were the Exhibit’s Showcase Images.
Title - Santana
Two Points Of View
Title - The Moody Blues
Go Now
Title - The Smashing Pumpkins
Lily (My One And Only)
Title - Tina Turner
I Might Have Been Queen
Title - The Moody Blues
Watching And Waiting
Title - Chris Isaak
Shadows In A Mirror
Title - The Fixx
Sunshine In The Shade
Title - Nelson
After The Rain
Title - Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern
The Way You Look Tonight
Title - Genesis
The Waiting Room
Title - Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, & Irving Mills
(In My) Solitude
Title - The Shadows
The Shadows
Title - Frank Zappa
Disconnected Synapses
Title - Van Morrison
Wild Night (Is Calling)
Title - Bob Dylan
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Title - Talking Heads