PWB Peeps - Open Thread - Black & White 2

Electra has been collecting black & white photographs for some time now and here she presents her  second round of photos (with a couple of duplicates).  I’ve got to admit, I think she’s done a bang-up job.  I have captioned the photos with any known details and added a few appropriate quotes.

“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors
and at the same time excludes all.” — Vikrmn

Totem, Mexico, 1987

“There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.” – Stefan Kanfer

The Bombing of Government Buildings, Santiago, Chile, September 11th, 1973

“What I love about Black & White photographs is that they’re more like
reading the book than seeing the movie” – Jennifer Price

Shot in Australia for Vogue, May 1964 

City cat, NYC, 1951

“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.” – Henri Mattise

“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.”  – Jack Antonoff

“To see in color is a delight for the eye
but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul”
– Andri Cauldwell

Dan Flynn & his cats, Labre Park, 1967 

“Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” – Jason Peterson

Islanti, Iceland, 1980

“The world is in color, you have to work at black and white.” – Andrew Maclean

Elizabeth Taylor photographed on the set of Giant, 1955

Félix Labisse, painter and decorator 1952

“Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.” — Joel Sternfeld

Tobacco Road, 1956

“Color is everything, black and white is more.” – Dominic Rouse

This is an open thread.   Color commentary is permitted.

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