black and white
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Black-and-white photographs gave a glimpse of Peter's early life, far removed from his son's modest upbringing in London - they showed a chauffeur-driven Mercedes, mansions staffed by servants, staircases ornately carved with angels.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025
Black-and-white drawings dominate the show’s first half, in which closely observed, acutely detailed faces emerge out of the blank void of colorless sheets of paper.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
Black-and-white photos cast on screens above the dancers identified dozens of students who attended the Tulalip Indian School, a boarding school that stood on this soil less than a century ago.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2023
Those kinds of hierarchies, especially in Black-and-white America, have always existed among and within all groups, including immigrants.
From Salon • Jun. 25, 2023
Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
