Every now and again I ask myself, “Why does black-and-white photography continue to resonate with contemporary photographers and audiences?”The existence of color photography has been around since the ...

The rainbow only contains pure spectral colors, called hues, without the addition of white or black. Image: Courtesy of Sasquatch Books This often sparks debate. In terms of light, white is a ...

From a series of experiments, researchers learned that subjects were more likely to recall the color version of an image than the same scene in black and white. The results, which appear in the ...

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) for instance is a film that was known for generations as being in black and white until it was restored in color,” Yumibe says. So Fantasia of Color in ...

Before 1967, the Best Production Design Oscar was split in two, with separate awards for color films and black and white films. And in the 53 years since the Academy combined the category into one ...

Though everything else remains black-and-white, “Chitty Chitty” appears in full color, as does the Raquel Welch fantasy sci-fi “One Million Years B.C.” in the film. And at live stage ...