Why Black & White

Finally going through some family stuff I've been putting off, I found this image of my father's family. Can you even imagine this image in color? I've been trying; just can't quite see it.

look at these and then maybe you might:
http://citynoise.org/article/10598

bowzart said:

Finally going through some family stuff I've been putting off, I found this image of my father's family. Can you even imagine this image in color? I've been trying; just can't quite see it.

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That's a great site. Thanks.

Now that you mention it, though, I happened to recall this. See http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/readmore.html

Gorskii shot everything with a tri-color camera. Quite an accomplishment. Thousands of images.

I just looked; the camera was not a tricolor, but was designed to make sequential exposures through each of the tricolor filters. Here's a fun one, where the sequential color shows in the flowing water http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-5006.jpg

I am only a recent convert to black and white, but the more of it I shoot the more I love it...
I think that a lot of shots only owrk in monochrome, the colours overwhelm it otherwise.
Also by reducing a photograph to tones you can get the essenceo of some scenes that colour would detract from.
Of course, autumn leaves work best on colour transparency!