Philip Scott Johns0n has put together a number of vimeo films.
I am fond of this one: "20th Century Black and White Photography."
A good photographer knows how to frame and populate a scene. I am partial to black-and-white photography (and color paintings, of course), because it seems to me that there is greater focus, balance of elements, and freedom from the difficulties that a spectrum of colors presents. Black and white demands, in its simplicity, a creative ascetical view.
Mr. Johnson has put together a nice vimeo tour of twentieth century photography. Aside from the artistic virtue of black and white, the peculiar art form adds to a melancholic sense of lost time.
See for yourself:
20th Century Black and White Photography from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.
Told you.
Lovely . . . thank you, Father!
Having lived in the Southeast for a while, once in the early 80s and later in the late 2000s, I found this film to have that sense of a lost time preserved only on film - not to say people do not still gather and play this sort of music, but there is this quality that seems to have once existed, and now is lost to some degree.
Piedmont Blues House Party in Virgina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21nqPuo6HU
Posted by: Eric John | September 22, 2011 at 04:26 PM
Do you love black and white because you see everything in black and white? Does this reflect your worldview?
Posted by: HK | September 22, 2011 at 07:23 PM
Oh, ok. Sigh. Non seq., one would think, in more convivial quarters.
Posted by: Fr. Jonathan Tobias | September 22, 2011 at 08:31 PM
Father, bless!
Very nice collection. I was hoping, however, to see one from Lucien Clergue: http://www.anneclergue.fr/artistes/Lucien-Clergue/portfolio
Posted by: derek | September 23, 2011 at 01:45 PM
Thank you Derek: you're right, Clergue should have shown up in any twentieth century montage. Blessings!
Posted by: Fr. Jonathan | September 23, 2011 at 01:50 PM