Has B&W photography become inherently sentimental?

[jameslomax]

Not sure about this.

In some ways, I think colour is more prone to sentimentalism. B & W materialises the gap between perception and image, compared to colour, because its an abstracted version.

 

So maybe there are 2 questions here:

 

1) the inhernet qualities of colour and B & W and how they conmpare and

2) the existing work being done.