Black is the colour of my true love’s hair, so the song goes, but it’s not an easy colour to work with if you want to make it stand out. I still managed to take some interesting pictures in England 2 years ago of subjects in that colour. The second picture comes with a trigger warning for its politically incorrect nature.
Ishi’s Light – Anish Kapoor installation at the Tate Modern
Golliwog display in Bullivant of York tea room
Box seats at St James’ Park, Newcastle
Black pudding at the Salisbury market. We don’t get these in Singapore. :(
This was what the sun was said to have looked like after the atomic bomb was dropped in World War II.
Noguchi’s Black Sun sculpture in Seattle
The Romans built the Porta Nigra, but it didn’t acquire that name before the sandstone darkened over the centuries.
The Porta Nigra in Trier
Black has a habit of flattening the curved surfaces on a car, but no other colour says ‘Mafia Boss’ like it does.
1949 Mercury at a car meeting in Burbank
It may be a very subdued and conservative tone but it also accentuates brighter colours set against it. The absence of light only serves to highlight it; what isn’t there is just as important as what is present.
Mexico City by night from a plane
Oskar Schindler’s enamelware factory, Krakow