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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) by Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is a black-and-white photograph taken by Ansel Adams, late in the afternoon on November 1, 1941, [1] from a shoulder of highway US 84 / US 285 in the unincorporated community of Hernandez, New Mexico, United States. [2]
The picture juxtaposes the similarities between the soft oval white face of the model, as if she were a living mask, with the shiny black mask, also with eyes closed and a serene expression. [4] It also expresses the artist's interest in African art, which had a huge influence in the artistic movements of the first decades of the 20th century.
Sally Mann (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) [1] is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.
Daidō Moriyama (Japanese: 森山 大道, Hepburn: Moriyama Daidō [1], born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke.
He pioneered astronomical and night photography. He was a prize-winner for his extraordinary early photographs of the moon and he was the first to produce images of stars other than the sun. Among those was the star Vega and the Mizar-Alcor stellar sextuple system, [citation needed] which was thought to be a double star until 2009. [2]
Black-and-white photography is considered by some to add a more emotional touch to the subject, compared with the original colored photography. [6] Monochrome images may be produced in a number of ways. Finding and capturing a scene having only variants of a certain hue, while difficult and uncommon in practice, will result in an image that ...
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), black and white photography of New York's architecture in the 1930s, part of the straight photography movement; Esther Henderson Abbott (1911–2008), first woman photographer for Arizona Highways Magazine; Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875–1937), explorer whose expedition photographs were published in National ...
Derges first experimented with camera-less photography while living in Japan. Her 1985 work Chladni Figures was produced by sprinkling carborundum powder directly onto photographic emulsion where it was exposed to sound waves at different frequencies (see Ernst Chladni), creating ghostly black and white images of natural order and chaos.