The New Color?

I feel bemused at why a nascent art photographer would be so openly conservative as to adhere to apparent conventions, and at my most pessimistic, I wonder if there's too much "trying-to-be-like" Eggleston, Shore, et al., and too little "creative-departure-from" the stellar standards that they have set.

From "The New Color: The Return of Black and White" by Charlotte Cotton

There is a lightly participated, but interesting forum attached to this article, as well.