<P> Jan Groover, a postmodernist noted for her work during the 1970s used color extensively in her work . </P> <P> Though color photography had its followers, black - and - white still remained the more popular and respected film when color first came out . </P> <P> Harold Baquet, for instance--a relatively current photographer known best for documenting New Orleans civil rights--was not keen on color . He preferred to take pictures mainly using black - and - white film . When asked about his reasoning for this preference during an interview, he replied "The less is more thing . Sometimes the color distracts from the essential subject . Sometimes, just light, line and form is enough, and it allows you to explore the sculptural qualities of that third dimension, that illusional dimension of depth . And it's fun". This aversion to color was due mainly to a fear of losing simplicity in his pictures . He worried that color gave the eye too much to take in . </P> <P> This worry was not uncommon . Photographer Ansel Adams, known best for his dramatic black - and - white landscapes, also felt that color could be distracting, and could therefore divert the artist's attention away from creating a photograph to his full potential, according to some experts . Adams actually claimed that he could get "a far greater sense of' color' through a well - planned and executed black - and - white image than (he had) ever achieved with color photography". Another expert source mentioned that Adams was a "master of control". He wrote books about technique, developed the Zone System--which helped determine the optimal exposure and development time for a given photograph--and introduced the idea of "previsualization", which involved the photographer imagining what he wanted his final print to look like before he even took the shot . These concepts and methods allowed for nearly total control of all the potential variables that factor into a final print . Because of this love for control, Adams disliked color because it lacked this element that he had mastered with black - and - white . </P>

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