Marchers at the San Francisco Gay Day Parade
ph: Marie Ueda | 1977
Image Description: A black and white photograph of two marchers on a street, lined with observers. One carries a sign that reads, “A gay landlord is still a landlord,” interspersed with stars. End ID.
this photo was taken in 1977 so why is it in black and white?
colour camera's had been around for a long time and were very much dominant in the late 1970s?
honestly curious
this photo is in black and white because it was taken in black and white on black and white film. a color version does not exist. black and white film still exists to this day. hope this helps.
Also one answer for why so many famous photos are black and white is because staff shooters for a lot of newspapers, and freelancers who sold most of their work to newspapers, often shot B+W pretty much up to the digital turnover, both for higher fidelity of details in the first place, faster processing (because they could develop at home or in the paper's onsite labs), and because they expected to be printing in black and white eventually anyway.
Also, while today we tend to associate black and white photography with things that happened a long time ago because color photography has been around for so long, it used to be more associated with things to be taken seriously/serious journalism.
