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black-and-white
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monochrome form in visual arts
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- art style
- Subclass of
- color
- Has part
- white
- Followed by
- color motion picture film
- Image
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- Commons category
- Black and white art
- topic's main category
- Category:Black-and-white media
- short name
- B/N
- facet of
- color
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Encyclopedic overview
A black-and-white photo of a breadfruit plant, c. 1870 Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as grayscale in technical settings.
Media
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “black-and-white” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.