Photographs Article Review Example

Stephen Shore has a variety of different works to consider with a number of different subjects. As I was looking through some of the images in “The Nature of Photographs,” I wondered to myself if the photographs would have the same impact if they were in black and white instead of color or color instead of black and white, depending on the photo. Color is often used in photographs because that is what we see in real life. However, the first photographs were in black and white. Now that it is an option, it becomes a part of the art form. Would it add to the illusion and the spin that the image depicts? If so, how?
Now that photographers can utilize both black and white and color in images through the use of tools such as Photoshop to perhaps show the red lips of a woman and the rest of her is black and white, for example. What if this same use of color was used in these other photos that Shore worked on that were sometimes landscape photos? He would have been able to show emphasis on certain objects in a photo. A photo outside of a hotel window that is black and white may not specifically have a certain meaning to those viewing it at first. However, if he had been able to take one subject and put it in color, it would have given the photo a whole new subject emphasis.
In one photograph, we see a person walking on a roadway in between vehicles. It looks as though he might get hit. If we had seen this photo in real time, the vehicles may be stationary. While it appears to be an old man crossing the road, it could always have been someone who was running and if so, what from? It is just a moment captured in time so we can only anticipate what might actually be happening in the scene in real life.