Friday, November 21, 2014

Sally Mann

1972-1973

I'm always a sucker for beautiful, impressive landscapes, but I'm not sure how I feel about them being in black and white. For me, what is consistently beautiful in a landscape is the colors. But this picture has caused me to think more about what it takes to make a landscape so beautiful. Is it the colors? Or is there something more impressive about it? 

This is definitely an impressive landscape, yet it lacks colors. What makes it so impressive to me? It's got something to do with the lighting. Perhaps, what can be most impressive in landscape isn't the colors at all, but rather something even more fundamental to all photography--ferocious lighting. 

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