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ARTIKEL BAHASA INGGRIS
1. Photography
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Black And White Photography
by: Edhy Wahyu
As with
television and the movies, black and white pictures were
first developed long before colored pictures were born.
The history of the modern photograph is much printed in
monochromatic pictures, which are basically black and white
pictures. The photograph back then was rendered in dark and
light patches which were used to create black and white
effects. The dark portions would sometimes be rendered as
gray or brown-ish.
Fall of Black and White
When the colored picture came into the scene during the 1975
era, black and white pictures came falling down, and they
fell hard. There were many reasons behind this plummeting.
The different manufacturers were developing better-than-ever
color films and they were creating these films at low
prices. The number of good developers of black and white
films was also declining. The attention of the public was
turned into the more elaborate and exciting colored
pictures.
Because of the different factors that were affecting the
photography market, the use of black and white film went
further down to rock bottom. People started to see the use
of black and white film as a difficult thing to do and they
wanted to shift to the use of colored film as soon as they
could. So, in those periods, people who studied photography
or took photography classes were deprived of the beauty of
the black and white picture. The market and the conditions
around the photographers were shaped so as to repress the
black and white scene in general.
Rise of Black and White
The black and white photographs are back in town. People are
now seeing the inherent beauty that these photographs
capture. They are back in print advertising. The modern
print advertising materials are so cluttered by so many
colors and pictures and when the black and white materials
are put side by side with them, the black and white pictures
gives the beholder a sense of reality which the colored ones
can't give.
As the cliché goes, “black is beautiful.” And black wouldn’t
be black if there wasn't white, therefore, “black and white”
is beautiful. The black and white picture was never really
gone away especially from the point of view of the
professional photographers. The art scene was never detached
from using black and white pictures, so as the newspaper
industry, where many newspaper would want their
photographers to get their pictures in the black and white
format.
With the advent of digital photography, you can instantly
convert your colored photos into black and white ones, the
black and white pictures are definitely making a strong
comeback. This time around, the black and white scene is
here to stay.
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