Today we are in the era of colour, it seems almost anachronistic to mention the black and white. The photograph in black and white suggests that we almost always a question of motivation that leads us to pause and observe it more closely. There is no doubt that the colour in the photo charms with immediacy; which meets in its entirety for the whole image. Black and white on the other hand is more critical and compels us to a greater depth of synthesis. The B & W photograph leads us to a more careful analysis of the image, where the graphics created is one that enhances the shades of grey . Perhaps the photograph in black and white photography should be called grey . In fact there are countless shades of grey ones that create the atmosphere so expressive, thereby allowing to assess the depth detail of the plans, thus enhancing the visual acquisition, and therefore, generating the emotional one. Monochrome photography is less realistic than colour. A photograph in black and white it isn’t just a picture “with missing colours”, but it 's a wonderful reality that requires a specific approach all its own. The missing of the colour post the attention of the spectator in other ways and directions. Indeed the black and white photography is not made only of objects that have a specific meaning, but even of lines, shapes, and of the different contrasts that form shadows.

In other hand the cored photography has a strong power too. At the beginning it wasn’t accepted as a art, in fact it was recognised as a mundane art and meaningless, but with the photojournalism (Steve McCurry) and artist like William Eggleston the coloured photograph gained a lot of good reviews. I think it was just a meter of time before this type was added in the art’s world. right now the B&W and the latter are at the same level; actually in my opinion these two styles are incomparable because are so different,  we can’t in fact to a good comparison between them , because the technique of photo shooting and of the realisation of the image are completely different.

so for my project i decided to deepen my study on these photography, through the principal exponent: for B&W Sally Mann and Ansel Adams; for colour: Steve McCurry and William Eggleston.