For Christmas, B. gave me a calendar of photos by Mario Giacomelli. The January image is one of seminarians dancing in a ring, in the snow: black on white. Here we see the pilgrims at Lourdes:
(taken from http://www.mariogiacomelli.it/53_lourdes10.html, accessed 01.01.12).
So many of his subjects seem to have been shot against snow (and this one is fleetingly reminiscent of the scene from Ivan the Terrible).
