photography vs black-and-white

photography is a noun but black-and-white is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
photography	Yes	No	No	No
black-and-white	No	Yes	No	No

photography (noun)	black-and-white (noun)
the act of taking and printing photographs
the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces

photography (adjective)	black-and-white (adjective)
	not having or not capable of producing colors
	lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
	of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories