Salgado, Twilight Zone ramblings

I've mentioned Salgado before, as I've spent a bit of time studying his work. After a short hiatus, I've found myself returning to observe his mastery once more. Surprisingly, the inspiration comes from The Twilight Zone as it's become the newest show I'm binging. I believe the title of this photo is, "Kuwait."

I sit here, overwhelmed with the complexity of this image and the vertigo of analogues one who chooses to actively study filmography/photography/lighting can glean from it alone. I mentioned last time, the fundamental idea of chiaroscuro - shape and form through light and shadow: an idea so simple, yet what it entails feels almost incomprehensible in depth. Form, including an object's qualities like texture...

Perhaps a tangent, or a side-effect of the painkillers I'm on for my neck, through Salgado, through the Twilight Zone, it is not the case that color is necessarily superfluous, in fact, far from it. However, it is clear that should this photo have color, some ineffable quality would be lost; whether we lose focus on shape and form, or lose ourselves in the vibrancy of color over stark contrast. Ultimately I find myself forever in awe of how useful and yet seemingly perpetually overlooked light alone can be as a device. And I think black and white imagery can offer some of its deepest insights exclusive from color.