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>>41980 There are a lot of reasons for shooting black and white other than pretension and color screwups. A lot of times, color is just a distraction, so a shot works better in B&W (especially if you want to emphasize texture). Also, if you're shooting film, B&W is easy to develop at home, and B&W films can be less grainy at higher ISOs than color films (and I don't think there's a color film that goes as high as, say, Ilford Delta 3200).
That being said, there's no reason for this particular shot to be black and white other than "Well, it didn't look artsy in color, and a lot of black and white shots look artsy, so I'll just desaturate this bitch and send it out"
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