Color Effectiveness

The September issue of GQ magazine featured James Franco and they labeled him as the next "James Dean". For this reason, I feel that they purposely used a black and white photo for the article that was written about him here. If you turn to other pages, you will notice that all of the photos are in black and white which I think was done on purpose to make a connection between him and James Dean. They used very large photos of him which made him look bold and strong even though the photos lacked color. Overall, I feel that although it lacked color, the black and whiteness tied well with the article and was effective in delivering the kind of message the writer wanted to deliver.