LensWork has grown for 20 consecutive years by exploiting a defined niche audience: fine art photography aficionados with a passion for classic black and white images that take their cues from the masters of the genre.
As of now, the setup only snaps black and white images with a resolution of 32 x 32 pixels, but there are plans to boost its fidelity by leveraging higher quality photodiodes (or even composite photos).
"While eBook readers have focused on static black-and white images in a single purpose device, we believe incremental content from magazines, newspapers, textbooks and other formats will lend themselves to a more colorful, immersive and interactive experience, more akin to what users have come to expect from the Internet, " Cross writes.
He pointed out ancient photos of Kashmiris in formal dress and showed us black-and-white images printed on silver gelatine paper.
Among the first to situate his home and studio here was Bae Bien-U, one of Asia's most highly regarded photographers and famous for his black-and-white images of gnarled pines.
More recent works address post-communist Eastern Europe and remain strongly feminist: glossy black-and-white images of models are juxtaposed with harrowing stories of domestic abuse.
Pasted on the outside of nine tall white panels, some walled at right angles to form squares, are large black-and-white images of incongruous and somewhat inscrutable things, including the front of a camera and two men conversing.
When we think of that epic conflict, we think of it in black-and-white images.
He shared his thoughts Tuesday on Instagram, where he was posting blank black squares instead of his usual artful black-and-white images.
The literal launch of brand NASA found every American in front of the flickering black-and-white images of a man hurtling into space.
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The team from the University of Pisa found that these children's brains were less able to distinguish between the black and white in flickering images.
For nearly two-thirds of the Somali population, those born after 1990, such black-and-white images are all they can know of the pre-war city once ranked among Africa's most attractive.
His sensual, velvety, high-contrast black-and-white images capture the exertions and exultations of music-making, and Costa eschews talking-head interviews and voice-overs in favor of trenchant depictions of technique, mood, and personal interactions.
The media tends to delight in black and white, one-dimensional images - caricatures almost.
Now consider that a black and white sensor can deliver 100% sharper images and minimal image noise up to ISO 10, 000, and you have the perfect camera for exactly these purposes.
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One of this year's most intriguing entries is by Sammy Baloji, who superimposes colonial black and white archive photos of Belgian-run mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo and places them over his color images of the decaying mines as seen today.
Unlike the actual newspapers, these black-and-white posters aren't for sale, but "the images and stories they conjure are amazing, " said one of the artists, Gilbert Proesch.
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He was wearing white chinos and a shiny black short-sleeved shirt, decorated with fluorescent images of vintage hot rods.
The initial images the SUV-size rover sent back to Earth were black and white and grainy, but one showed its wheel resting on the stony ground, and the vehicle's shadow appeared in another.
And the technique is fascinating: black-and-white cinematography (on color stock with the color bleached out), soft images via lenses that now qualify as antiques, performances that echo the old film-noir acting style.
It features more than 1, 400 images from horror, sci-fi, comedy, silent, sound, and black-and-white monster movies that run a gamut of categorization: Vampires, Werewolves, Atomic Mutations, Human Monsters, and Scary Older Ladies.
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