"I wouldn’t say that black-and-white
is always better than colour. It’s like, it depends a bit on the image, and
there are beautiful colour images where everything comes together. What I like
about black-and-white is that it takes you sort of out of the reality, because
black-and-white is completely irreal. You know, everything is colour and you
see colour all the time. That’s why I think black-and-white is a bit like
stopping the time, stripping off reality, and looking at the soul or the core
of something, the real, the bare minimum."
from 'Portrait of Jan Scholz' on Vimeo.
Wow. That just changed my outlook towards B&W images. I have never been much of a fan of those in the past, because I can never get enough of the colour in images. I mean what would be the point if photography without all those wonderful colours. Some images do look better in B&W, but I was always one for the colour.
ReplyDeleteThis quote was really something, though. :D
I kind of got addicted to Julie Delpy's Je t'aime tant, I think the accent and the rolling r's made it get stuck in my head!
I've liked both colour and B&W, and like he says, it does depend on the image. I always felt the there's something about B&W that brings out the magic in some pictures, but I couldn't quite place it or express it clearly until I heard this, when I was like, 'exactly!'.
DeleteThe guttural R's, you mean? It's the Spanish who roll theirs. Nevertheless, it simply sounds good, doesn't it? It's now that I get to say, I told you so!