A Tradition Evolved
Black-and-white photography is where it all started. Photography started in the mid-1800s, and became a very important part of the world starting with the Civil War. It wasn’t until 1935 that Kodachrome was invented, and it was not a significant part of photography until decades later. In fact, Ansel Adams did his major work between 1935 and 1980, and it was all black-and-white imagery. (Note: Adams did shoot color on assignment for publications like Fortune, but he never liked it.)
Yet by the 1980s, color photography was displacing black-and-white photography in most publications. Black and white became relegated to the “cheap pages” and then disappeared from magazines altogether. Color print film became cheap and easy to ...
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