Black and white photography has always demanded more imagination from the viewer than color photography. Keeping images monochrome, restricted to shades of gray, means the viewer must make personal choices and subjective interpretations in evaluating the photograph.

Erotic photography works best where more is hidden than revealed and, like black and white images, requires imagination on the part of the viewer. That’s one of the reasons that erotic photographs, as in the image below, work so well in black and white rather than in color.

Chair

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See Erotic Black and White Photography for more on this intriguing topic.