Wikipedia provides the following definition of the term monochrome:
“Of an image, the term monochrome is usually taken to mean the same as black and white or, more likely, greyscale, but may also be used to refer to other combinations containing only tones of a single color, such as green-and-white or green-and-red. It may also refer to sepia displaying tones from light tan to dark brown or cyanotype (blueprint) images, and early photographic methods such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, each of which may be used to produce a monochromatic image."
Rather than relying on colour, black and white images use lines, shapes, patterns, the contrast between light and dark, and sometimes just the viewer’s own imagination to tell their story. The colour images in this collection lack bold colours and rely on the same types of features as the truly black and white images to tell their stories.
All of the images in this exhibit are available for purchase at Kawartha Art Gallery until September 30th
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