Moriyama moves to Tokyo, to join the eminent photographers` group
Until the 1880s, photographic processes used to print negatives — notably the calotype, the salt print and the albumen print — generally produced images with a variety of brown or sepia tones.
Later processes moved toward a black-and-white image, although photographers have used toning solutions to convert silver in the image to silver sulphide, imparting a brown or sepia tone.
Similarly, selenium toner produces a blue-black or purple image by converting silver into more stable silver selenide. Cyanotypes use iron salts rather than silver salts, producing blue images.
Most modern black-and-white films, called panchromatic films, record the entire visible spectrum.
Some films are orthochromatic, recording visible light wavelengths shorter than 590 nanometers, in the blue to green range of the spectrum and are less sensitive to the longer wavelength range (i.e. orange-red) of the visible spectrum.
Exhibition
First, throw aout verisimilitude, Tabata Shoten
with Michiaki Amano, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka takanashi and Koji Taki
“Photo City Tokyo” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
“The National Museum of Modern Art and Photography: 1953-1995” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Film Center, Tokyo
“Fotographia Japonese Contemporanea” Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid ; Diputacion de Valencia Sala Parpallo, Valencia ; Casa Elizalde, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao
“Shoji Ueda, Daido Moriyama and Fuyuki Hattori ” Zeit-foto salon, Tokyo
Modern techniques
Black-and-white photography is considered by some to be more subtle and interpretive, and less realistic than color photography.
Monochrome images are not direct renditions of their subjects, but are abstractions from reality, representing colors in shades of grey. In computer terms, this is often called greyscale.
Black-and-white photography is considered by some to add a more emotional touch to the subject, compared with the original colored photography.
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 technically qualifies as a monochrome photo.
RGB images
Color images can be converted to black and white on the computer using several methods, including desaturating the existing color RGB image so that no color remains visible (which still allows color channels to be manipulated to alter tones such as darkening a blue sky, or by converting the image to a greyscale version (which eliminates the colors permanently), using software programs like Photoshop.
After software conversion to a monochrome image, one or more hues can replace the grey tones to emulate duotones, sepia, selenium or gold toned images or cyanotype, calotype or albumen prints.
Monochrome photography
Monochrome photography is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light, but not a different hue.
It includes all forms of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing shades of neutral grey ranging from black to white. Other hues besides grey, such as sepia, cyan, or brown can also be used in monochrome photography.
In the contemporary world, monochrome photography is mostly used for artistic purposes and certain technical imaging applications, rather than for visually accurate reproduction of scenes.
火を見るより明らかだ
