Beautiful Black and White Photography

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If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation.

Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in are important. Hence, before considering the photos presented below please prepare some patience and time. This post presents some truly excellent examples of beautiful black-and-white photography.

Notice: this post isn’t supposed to showcase the best black-and-white-photos of world’s best photographers; please see it as a modest attempt to inspire designers for experimenting with black and white instead of using a variety of vibrant colors all the time. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting and unusual for herself or himself.

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Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography

Toni Frissell
In her legendary photos Toni Frissell impresses with a strong trend toward surrealism or realism. The photo presented below, although in black and white, is both extremely sharp and clear. To achieve such level of clarity in black and white is extremely hard.

Black and White Photography

Alin Ciortea
Alin Ciortea presents examples of modern street photography. In black and white, of course.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Birds
Unfortunately, the photographer is unknown. The photo seems to be taken at exact the right moment from exactly the right angle with a perfect lighting. Black and white can be powerful as well.

Black and White Photography

Sally Mann
This photo, titled Candy Cigarette, not just displays something, it tells a story. It is both emotional and beautiful. This is what the originality of black-and-white-photography is all about.

Black and White Photography

Larry Towell
This shot was taken in El Salvador. Child with star mask during “Day Of The Dead”. Other child in background rolls tire for repair in garage where he works at an adult’s job. The photo is full of tiredness and stubbornness. Simple motif conveying strong emotions.

Black and White Photography

Aneta Kowalczyk
Aneta Kowalczyk specializes in portrait photography. Some of her photos are provoking, some are strange and some are extremely beautiful. The example below displays the beautiful side of black and white photography.

Black and White Photography

Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt is a renown animal photographer which has become famous with his book of photographs, “On This Earth”, which was published in October 2005.

Black and White Photography

Gary Winogrand
Taking a shot just at the right moment.

Black and White Photography

Larry Louie
Woman Of Tibet. Realism at its best. Awarded with International Photography Awards in 2007.

Black and White Photography

Gabriele Caretti
Tour Eiffel: extraordinary contrast and perspective. Strong, clean and very precise shot.

Black and White Photography

Ghost Town Charm
Excellent lighting.

Black and White Photography

Ansel Adams
One of the most famous contemporary black and white photographers. Classic!

Black and White Photography

Maurizio Polese
Polese’s works pay close attention to small, tiny details. The tones are perfects and compositions are beautiful which is why the photos are presented in this post. Notice the sharp contrast and the lighting at the first image below and the sharp pathway leading to the light in the second one.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Top 10 Wired.com Reader Black-and-White Photos
Ten extraordinary black and white photographs sent to the Wired.com editorial by its readers.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Michele Clement
Artistic yet beautiful and extremely powerful shot. Michele Clement is the winner of Black & White Spider Awards 2007 in category “Outstanding Achievement”.

Black and White Photography

Snyder Alison
This photo has been taken in South Crillon Glacier, Washburn.

Black and White Photography

Abbas
Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami on the hills surrounding the captital, where his film “Taste of Cherry”, which was co-awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes 1997, was shot.

Black and White Photography

Patrick Figaj
Ceremony.

Black and White Photography

Jack Radcliffe
Alison’s life in black and white photos. The significance of these pictures emerges in retrospect. “When my daughter Alison was born, in the tradition of a new parent, I began to photograph her, initially in a separate and private body of work. However, in the process of documenting Alison’s growth, I developed a passionate interest in human relationships and capturing intimate moments in the lives of family and friends.”

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Arndt Laude
Alignment. Sometiems all it takes is to be at the right place in the right moment and take a shot under the right angle. That’s what happened here.

Black and White Photography

Ralph Gibson
Staircase is an example of Gibson’s high-contrast, minimalist black and white compositions have influenced a generation of photographers. By isolating the essential elements of a scene, his pictures show a style that is unique and immediately recognizable. [via]

Black and White Photography

Elliott Erwitt
Erwitt, an advertising and journalistic photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings — the master of the “indecisive moment”.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Roy Mckeown
Snowy Sheep.

Black and White Photography

Adam Hinton

Black and White Photography

Van Shnooken Raggen
Two Warehouses.

Black and White Photography

Rodney Smith
Rodney Smith has his own understanding of professional black-and-white-photography. Unusual, abstract and surrealistic works.

Black and White Photography

Drole Deciel
Smiley.

Black and White Photography

Shazeen Samad
Simple yet excellent composition. This photo manages not just to show something, but to capture a moment of life in all its beauty and vividness.

Black and White Photography

Scott Bush
Berk-plage – France. What a sky! A really strange squadron: octopussy, teddy bear and skates.

Black and White Photography

Pedro Meyer
Pedro Meyer shows the life of people across the globe. This photo was taken in Rio De Janeiro.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Mitch Dobrowner
Mitch Dobrowner is famous due to his Earth photos.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Robertino Nikolic
lighting plays with geometry. Or geometry plays with lighting? The winner of the Black & White Spider Awards 2007.

Black and White Photography

Matthias Just
747.

Black and White Photography

Unknown
Capturing the right moment at the right point of time.

Black and White Photography

Bert (Quasebart)
Perfect timing, perfect lighting. A dreamy shot.

Black and White Photography

Hughes Leglise-Bataille
That’s a quite unusual perspective for a photograph.

Black and White Photography

Santosh Korthiwada
“No peeping please!” Very powerful, emotional and somehow sad photo.

Black and White Photography

Rui Palha
Rui Palha photographs simple people in simple situations. Result: extraordinary photos of simple things surrounding our life.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Watanabe
Straws.

Black and White Photography

Lauren
Two Tree Hill. The composition looks very surreal, yet powerful and beautiful.

Black and White Photography

G. Diaz Deleon
Ventana XIV. Geometric minimalism at its best.

Black and White Photography

Maurizio Polese
Escape. Unusual angle, unusual perspective.

Black and White Photography

Jana Stolzer
Nameless.

Black and White Photography

Vega Omer
Struggling to survive.

Black and White Photography

Ezra Caldwell
Dog snout. Sometimes the moments from our life are the most valuable moments we should enjoy and keep in mind.

Black and White Photography

Last Click

Crossing Lines

Black and White Photography

Classics in Lego
An illustrative summary of iconic pictures with their pairs of Balakov’s Lego figure pictures which are reconstucting famous moments in the history of mankind.

Black and White Photography

Black and White Photography

Mark Daniel Owen
I heart you. Do you see what we see?

Black and White Photography

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Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

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    Amazing!

    Sooooo Beautiful…………………..!!!!!

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    woooww! reaallly.. superb!!!

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    really inspiring photos ands touch my life…. superb!

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    maza agayi by god!!

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    Such a perfect collection of BW photos !! i am impressed. EG

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    Monica McNeil

    July 9th, 2009 1:57 pm

    this was just wonderful.
    those pictures were Awesome!!

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    Thank for it. it’s looking very nice.. photografic is a fun..and i like it
    thanks

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    awesome photos!

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    “birds” image …
    from deviantart :

    Artist’s Comments
    “Suicide among birds. First feeling will be the freedom, then fear… Whatever, i always want to fly anyway…”

    EDIT:

    Technical Note:
    Birds are copied from one of my old works “Stand Alone” one by one. Resized. Rotated. vs vs
    Jumping man is copied from one of “The end at the end” work shots. I used self timer and tripod to get this jump action freezed…

    So, i repeat :) this is not an actual shot, not a “kodak moment”.

    http://madsky.deviantart.com/art/The-End-19108599

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    u collection s suprbb……i liked …………..

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    i saw the freedom in some of your fotos…….the beauty of our planet and people live on it

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    wooooooooooooooooooooooow……………..AMAZZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG…………

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    Absolutely fabulous!

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    This is seriously some of the best photography I have ever seen! I hope you have many years and insperations to create more

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    AWSOME……….
    ITS DAMN INTERESTING…
    THE WORK DONE IS VERY BEAUTIFUL….VERY ATHENIC…
    OUTSTANDING

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    Wow…cool…
    best picture !!!!!!!!!!

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    Fakeries sould be banned from photographs listings. A photo at least need to be created in one singel moment of time. Enhancing here and there for exposure or accents is acceptable but montage from mulitple pictures where we see two suns like in – Ghost Town Charm – . And then all these comments with such purported photos. Are people stupid?

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    nice!!! this is called defferent perspective to see things.. :) exellent.

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    Andrei Bergthold

    September 17th, 2009 8:22 am

    This is Okay Im indifferent some is tite some is nontite.

    Also thrilled to be #225

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    i love these!! beautiful that’s one thing.

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    larine milligton

    September 23rd, 2009 7:24 am

    its gay i hate blck and white pic

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    philwebsupport

    October 6th, 2009 6:19 pm

    I love this portion went I want to shoot somebody I always check this composition and try to put myself in the scene.

    thanks smash mag

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    very2 extraordinary photos…..
    hmm i like that!!!

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    after i saw the photos, so i wanna to find image at the my world. oh god.

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    subham Kumar Das

    October 12th, 2009 12:38 am

    you take the pleasure out of the work……………………………….thats the beauty of your work……………………………..

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    Absolutely fabulous!

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    amazing black and white photo.. very likes

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    Webmistress Anne

    November 4th, 2009 4:10 pm

    Snyder Alison’s shot is amazing. It’s amazing what the human mind can see and create when it’s forced to deal with the basics of theme. In this case – creating an image that totally captures the imagination even though it can only contain 2 colours – black and white.

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    breathtaking in black and white

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    guaaauuuu!!!

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    amazing man……..its awesome

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    this is true art….
    arts are tru emotions of one’s self expression… understanding its feeling as it calls out to you. ” understanding is the wealth of life only to does who understands it.

    i like your works, its really amazing and so real…

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    Yasemin Karakaya

    December 24th, 2009 11:06 am

    actually the photo called “birds” is Cihan Altun’s photograph..
    He is such a great friend and a photographer..:)
    you can reach his works from http://www.madsky.deviantart.com

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    I must say i truly love black and white photography, love the emotion and the raw feeling. Just have to as well leave a comment about “birds” remember seeing the picture a while back on deviantart and through the link of the above i found it again http://madsky.deviantart.com/art/The-End-19108599 hereby, you can read it is not a photograph, but a few combined in a nonetheless beautiful way!
    Thanks for the inspiration

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    carmen and ashtin

    January 2nd, 2010 9:29 pm

    those pics were amazing some creepy but cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Wonderful black and white photography!

    I love the second one the most. The hue and brightness is just perfect :)

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    Check out the photograph ‘Bathe’ on this artists website- its really awesome
    katelynsnyder.com

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    Hi, my name is Frédéric Mars, from France.
    The pic named : Kites (on the beach of Berk) is not of Scott Bush, but is mine.
    This is a problem very boring, and I try to fix it.
    I talk to the webmaster, I would you fix the problem on your webpage, and you change the name.
    Thanks so much in advance.
    My page, to see the picture : http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480607@N07/2425407374/

    F.Mars (aka Marsup’ on flickr)

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    muuuuy buen trabajo! felicidades! lo disfrute mucho

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    AMAZING !!!
    VERY..VERY BEAUTIFULL. . .

    LIKE THIS !!!

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    Very nice, you inspired me!

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    Really good picture.

    I f u have sports stars pics Black and white then please send to my email

    I will Really Thanxfull to u.
    I am very keen of Black&White photography

    I like your collections

    Regards,
    Yaman Chauhan
    India

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    anurodh yadav frm india

    February 14th, 2010 6:33 am

    sir ur photo is truly amazing. i really like it. i made folder of ur photo and sometime i observed lot. best of luck. take care sir

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    Is this a decent photo? I’m just starting out with black and white, I think it’s a great start though.

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  48. 248

    hey we dont like ur pics need more nudity

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    first time i see any body way of thing like that , thats is amazing photography with unique thinking?

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    Wow Sick photos. id like to have the opportunity to take those shots

    Peace

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  51. 251

    awesome master pieces !!!

    I have been thinking of taking up photography from a long time.. and when i see these abstract themes, it makes my belief stronger that anything, just anything can be a beutiful photograph…

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    • 252

      When I think of the word beautiful I think of death and destruction because it’s the only thing that can fix many of those who have acute or very serious problems. That’s beautiful.

      -26
      • 253

        just SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no one cares about your pathetic out-take on life. just because you cant find anything beautiful about art doesn’t mean we dont. so get off your sorry butt and get a life and stop putting people who are more cultured than you down.

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        Wow, I’ve never seen someone go mental over black and white. You racist Nazi!!!! Let’s see you try to take a picture like the above. Uncultured Swine!

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        are you serious elrith ? go slit your wrists man holy shit, showing pictures in color and then in black and white sendsa message, B&W photography is an ART it makes you think of the thoughts behind the picture like the little boy in the third world country, makes you think of what he is going through, his world is being destroyed and is it beautiful ? i definately dont think so. so keep your horrible self pity thought to yourself.

        great pictures by the way

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        you guys know that this person is partly right, without destruction and death those pictures wont have the emotional meaning or what ever messages it is trying to convey.

        +2
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      Sterling Wilson

      October 17th, 2010 4:33 pm

      I love these photos. Adam Hinton’s work reminds me of Sterling Wilson’s. Take a look for yourself at sterlingxwilson.com

      +1
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      @Anuradha – Me too ! am only 14 but I have a strong passion for photography and i’d love taking up a course. I just dunno how to go about it

      -1
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        Alex McCarren

        August 8th, 2011 7:35 am

        First off start taking pictures that you can take. Pictures around your home and local environment. Don’t be in a rush. Patience is a photographers best tool. Study other people’s work. Start off with film, it teaches a great discipline. follow your own road and do not be distracted by fads and fancies and what’s “cool”. Be a very harsh critic of your own work. If there is a night-course in film photography near you (I have no idea where you live) go to it. Learn. It’s actually not difficult and will give you a rock-solid grounding. And if you particularly want to do black-and-white photography film knocks spots off digital.

        If you’d like to see some of my work go to http://www.Sandimak.com

        Good luck,
        Alex.

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    • 261

      Anupriya your photos are really beautiful like u. i like it.

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      In everything there is a picture, and i do mean everything , for instance water splashed on concrete I look at it an say to myself , there’s a picture there

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    Those are absolutely beautiful B&W shots. Thank you for the inspiration.

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    Nice photos, They really inspire me. Black and White Photographers

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      Inspire you to do what? Throw up?

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        Inspires me to want to scissor kick you in the dome for being so shallow. Obviously, Elrith.. You wouldnt know good art if it was stabbed in your retina. So you dont like the medium its in, we are all entitled to our opinions but sometimes you just need to keep your mouth shut and step back and enjoy the picture as itself. If you dont like art why are you taking an art class?

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    raffaele claudio rossiello

    March 17th, 2010 12:14 am

    In this photostream there are some masterpiece, I like it all!!
    Tahnks for the inspiration.
    raffaele
    scheda28 – is my nick on flickr!!

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    these photos are amazing. They grab your attention and make you think, ” why did the photgrapher take this image? what did he/she see?” beautiful.

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    These photos are horrible. The only reason I’m looking at them is because I have to use some of them for art class. What is the point of taking black and white pictures when they can be in color? Art is the upmost cheapest and worst way of expressing yourself. Art can be spelled as “rat” and no one likes rats.

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      @ elrith
      you seem so bitter and frustrated with….”art” or life in general.
      there are so many ways to express yourself through art, whether it be b&w photography or color photography or sculpting small or giant structures. you may not like b&w but that doesnt mean it is horrible, thats just an opinion and not a fact. try taking a few deep breathes and maybe some counseling sessions too. “just my opinion”

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      chenesai monera

      May 23rd, 2010 7:15 am

      c’mon elrith, the reason why you use them in your class is because they are good, you can’t sell what you don’t believe in , LOL was lookin at your comments and you really sound like you hate black and white photography, but believe me there is just something about them, not too busy , liberating and happy !

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      Elrith don’t forget to take your pills …

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      You’re just a plain downright jerk! Why don’t you just go jump off a bridge b/c we don’t need people like you in the world. Just b/c you can’t create art doesn’t mean that you have to spew your vomit all over the place. Asshole ….

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      elrith:
      you are such a limited and boring stubborn man

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      Even if you can’t appreciate this beauty, others can so keep your nasty comments to yourself. Don’t you have anything better to do?

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      Sad person;and very grammatically challenged. If you cannot see beauty without colour then you really are a very sad person.

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    • 282

      I’m colorblind and i’m a photographer, i think they’re very nice.

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    • 283

      the point of black and white is to see the beauty behind the coloured picture. if u really look at black and white pictures they show emotion and feeling more so than colour. everybody has there own opinion and these pictures are art in one way or another. black and and white sepia, negative, colour no matter wat colour u take a picture in it is art. art can come in many differnt forms and black and white is one of them. so just thin of the inner beauty like a person. as they say dont judge a book by its cover look in the picture to find the real meaning

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      and you have the cheapest and worst way of understanding what art is. art can be spelled as “rat”….. but elrith can be spelled as “hitler”. lol. no one likes hitler.

      +4
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    Ajinkya gaikwad

    March 26th, 2010 7:18 am

    very cool pics,hats off to you .

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    Awesome pictures! Weldone All!

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    David Hardwick Photography

    April 5th, 2010 7:30 am

    Black & white photography does not get much better than these examples. Fantastic work.

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    i Love lego people
    Don’t judge me cause of my fine Words!
    Awesome!!!!!

    Peace.

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    i love these photos and if u think these suck monkey
    butts u don’t know art.
    that makes u a monkey butt sucker!!!

    peace

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    Beutiful it hurts my heart =/ so amazing !

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    omijesus i love your photos such power and heart… i used your photos for a class assignment and they moved me…strongly

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    i cried looking at a few…

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    these photos are WONDERFUL ! Thank you so much for putting them up.

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    Raman Bhardwaj

    April 26th, 2010 8:42 am

    I like , all these pictures , really am love it

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    Wonderful pictures!
    Are they clear from copyright? Can I display them on my website?

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    awesome is an understatement ….these were the most amazing pics i have ever seen in my life…truly beautiful……

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    i love black and white photos

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    there is so much soul n there is no word in the English volc. to xpress the beauty of these photos!!

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    i really like black n white photo, for me it was more realistic.

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    Chuck Provonchee

    May 11th, 2010 7:52 am

    You have some beautiful black and white photographs on here but if you really want to see black and white photography at its very finest you should check out Bill Brandt, George Tice, Kosti Ruohomma, Alfred Eisenstadt, Minnie Libby and George Hurrell, among many others.

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    who ever made this article is a pretentious art fuck

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    Evandra casagrande

    May 17th, 2010 11:47 am

    Simplesmente arrasou,lindas demais,parabéns.

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    I used to love photography! Then i got wrapped up in my school work! I think this i goin to really change my mind about giving up on photography! I love it a lot!

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    chenesai monera

    May 23rd, 2010 7:19 am

    good abstract themes, these pictures are amazing, so deep and have so much heart i absolutely love them !

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    very impresionant!! and reflexive! thanks for sharing ;)

    From Peru!!

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    …black and white…yet so expressive…

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    wonderful, wonderful, wonderful… I love black and white, especially when just part of it is colorful,thanks for sharing

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    iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttttttttttttttssssssssssssssssssss ,,,,,,,,,,, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg………………… nnnnnnnnnnniiiccceeeeeeeeeeee………..

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    Mourad Bennacer

    June 3rd, 2010 9:08 pm

    I love them all, very inspiring, Thank you.

    +1
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    i’m soooooooo inlove with black & whiet pics and these are just reaaaaaly wonderfull thnx for sharing ^^

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    Margaret Monegro

    June 11th, 2010 10:34 am

    Just AmAzInG… like never seen.

    I love it…

    From Dominican Republic MMM

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    thesse are awesome pictured ohhh ya :)

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    Amalia crowder

    July 8th, 2010 9:51 pm

    Waooo!, what can I say? Terrific!, Hermosas!

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    TwitterBackgrounds

    July 15th, 2010 4:26 am

    Great photography showcase :) Those black and white photos look really stunning. Wish I had a good batch of them for our website viuu.co.uk . We could make some great Twitter backgrounds out of them. Really nice to look at. Thanks for sharing.

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    to great photography……………………i have seen many photos which depicts the beauty , the freshness of nature..but these photos are r”lly stunning ,and such events which are even hard to think or to capture . black and white photography can never be shown better then this………………………………………….these are those moments everyone notices but your camera has captured these events and now these events are really admirable,………………..shambhavi..

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    wow.. amazin black n white photography……… luved iit…….

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    from tne south of the wold….. i don’t haver words for these pphotos

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    gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamd 2we al pic de …….fe 7aga 7lwa ana mesh 3arfa a7dadha ……ank t7as f skoooooooot……k2ane sam3a samt al sawar

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    wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww nice picture sooooooooooooooooo good

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    pictures are very beautiful
    i think black and white picture the best of photographi mode
    if may
    send me
    the new and best photos

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    I have no words to say how beautiful these photos actually are. Looking at them, I remembered the photos of my grandfather and the photos that he had of his Coffee Estate. A class of its own which only the lovers of black and white photos admire.

    Hats off to these wonderful photographers.

    Shyla

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  94. 324

    these are really amazing pictures, and if u think they are not, then you dont know what true art is.. so suck it!!

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    Duncan cunningham

    August 30th, 2010 11:35 pm

    I came upon this page by pure chance,and love the content,thanx

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    Just not words enough to explain the beauty of the photos. But say WOW! looking at them.

    +5
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    Jeremiah selengia

    September 14th, 2010 12:52 am

    Lovely photography all these pictures evoke some kind of emotion thats what it is all about!!

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    I love u to all photos

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    wow…..AMAZING PICTURES!!!!!

    +1
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    WOOOWWW they really inspire me these pictures i gotta say the ppl who took those pics r really great thumps up and keep going cause what ur doing is remarkable !

    0

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    @ elrith
    you seem so bitter and frustrated with….”art” or life in general.
    there are so many ways to express yourself through art, whether it be b&w photography or color photography or sculpting small or giant structures. you may not like b&w but that doesnt mean it is horrible, thats just an opinion and not a fact. try taking a few deep breathes and maybe some counseling sessions too. “just my opinion”

    +35
  2. 2

    Elrith shut up, you are so rude

    +25
  3. 3

    life seems but clearer when the colours are removed…

    +13
  4. 4

    awesome master pieces !!!

    I have been thinking of taking up photography from a long time.. and when i see these abstract themes, it makes my belief stronger that anything, just anything can be a beutiful photograph…

    +12
  5. 5

    Elrith don’t forget to take your pills …

    +12
  6. 6

    Even if you can’t appreciate this beauty, others can so keep your nasty comments to yourself. Don’t you have anything better to do?

    +10
  7. 7

    Sad person;and very grammatically challenged. If you cannot see beauty without colour then you really are a very sad person.

    +10
  8. 8

    these photos are amazing. They grab your attention and make you think, ” why did the photgrapher take this image? what did he/she see?” beautiful.

    +9
  9. 9

    I wonder if Elrith took counceling

    +9
  10. 10

    i Love lego people
    Don’t judge me cause of my fine Words!
    Awesome!!!!!

    Peace.

    +8
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    Brian, I guess that makes you one as well for looking at it then! If you don’t like it, what are you doing here then!?

    Very nice work I think!!

    +7
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    David Hardwick Photography

    April 5th, 2010 7:30 am

    Black & white photography does not get much better than these examples. Fantastic work.

    +6
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    Beutiful it hurts my heart =/ so amazing !

    +6
  14. 14

    I’m colorblind and i’m a photographer, i think they’re very nice.

    +6
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    chenesai monera

    May 23rd, 2010 7:15 am

    c’mon elrith, the reason why you use them in your class is because they are good, you can’t sell what you don’t believe in , LOL was lookin at your comments and you really sound like you hate black and white photography, but believe me there is just something about them, not too busy , liberating and happy !

    +5
  16. 16

    Just not words enough to explain the beauty of the photos. But say WOW! looking at them.

    +5
  17. 17

    and you have the cheapest and worst way of understanding what art is. art can be spelled as “rat”….. but elrith can be spelled as “hitler”. lol. no one likes hitler.

    +4
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    I love black and white photography, it takes away the distractions of the colour and focuses on the true beauty shown through the raw emotions.
    Look at Sally Mann’s photo and the caption, ‘emotional and beautiful’, this kind of impact wouldn’t be capable is it was a colour photo.
    Yes there are some amazing colour photographs out there but none are capable of capturing the same emotions as some of these works.
    These are amazing!

    +4
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    the point of black and white is to see the beauty behind the coloured picture. if u really look at black and white pictures they show emotion and feeling more so than colour. everybody has there own opinion and these pictures are art in one way or another. black and and white sepia, negative, colour no matter wat colour u take a picture in it is art. art can come in many differnt forms and black and white is one of them. so just thin of the inner beauty like a person. as they say dont judge a book by its cover look in the picture to find the real meaning

    +4
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    these photos are WONDERFUL ! Thank you so much for putting them up.

    +3
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    Ajinkya gaikwad

    March 26th, 2010 7:18 am

    very cool pics,hats off to you .

    +3
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    You’re just a plain downright jerk! Why don’t you just go jump off a bridge b/c we don’t need people like you in the world. Just b/c you can’t create art doesn’t mean that you have to spew your vomit all over the place. Asshole ….

    +3
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    Whether or not one likes black and white photography this collection is extremely good. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so I have always understood.
    It does seem a great pity though that many, whether for or against, have to use four letter words when expressing themselves. In doing so they simply show ignorance of the use of language, and a lack of good manners.

    +3
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    elrith:
    you are such a limited and boring stubborn man

    +3
  25. 25

    Inspires me to want to scissor kick you in the dome for being so shallow. Obviously, Elrith.. You wouldnt know good art if it was stabbed in your retina. So you dont like the medium its in, we are all entitled to our opinions but sometimes you just need to keep your mouth shut and step back and enjoy the picture as itself. If you dont like art why are you taking an art class?

    +3
  26. 26

    you guys know that this person is partly right, without destruction and death those pictures wont have the emotional meaning or what ever messages it is trying to convey.

    +2
  27. 27

    Wonderful pictures!
    Are they clear from copyright? Can I display them on my website?

    +2
  28. 28

    awesome is an understatement ….these were the most amazing pics i have ever seen in my life…truly beautiful……

    +2
  29. 29

    I love u to all photos

    +2
  30. 30

    niceee…love it! :)

    +2

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