Is Photography to Remain a Black and White Art?
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“What forecast, Mr.White, do you make of future developments in photography? Is it to remain a black and white art, or are photographs in natural colors to supersede the familiar photograph of the present day in our exhibitions and in our homes?”
“I think that the fundamental expression of photography is in black and white, and as we develop what I would call the definite photographic quality, black and white will maintain its present ascendency.”
“But don't you expect the art to develop in different directions from what it is today and what it has been in the past?”
“I think it will develop especially in a more marked sense of picture construction.”
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