Digital BW, The Print

I saw some of it on the wall at the Photographers gallery yesterday, but 
they were still putting it up.  I think the private view is tomorrow and 
it opens Friday 8th. I have an invite, but can't make it as I hope to be 
at another opening at Photofusion..

Anna Fox was interviewed talking about it on BBC Radio 4 this evening. 
Although as this show demonstrates, they could shoot in colour, I'm not 
sure that there was any real way that the magazines then could handle 
it, or wanted to do so. I think the whole publishing system was really 
geared to black and white, with agencies like the OSI sending out black 
and white prints.

Relatively little colour was used in magazines etc in that period. Even 
in my youth 20 or so years later, magazines and newspapers were 
predominantly  black and white, and it is much more recently that they 
have turned to colour, so it is hardly surprising that the black and 
white that was taken was much more widely used. As it says on the web 
site, "the colour FSA images were to remain half forgotten in the 
Library of Congress."
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html
Having seen the colour work, although I find it interesting, it seems to 
me to lack the authority and power of the black and white images by the 
same photographers that we are more familiar with. And of course there 
are around a 100 times as many black and white images.


Peter Marshall
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l33ry wrote:
> I believe you're right, but this week the show opened in London.
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>> Wasn't this released in the spring of this year. I remember looking  
>> at this stuff this summer.
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