Can some one explain tonality

[Ororaro]

great gallery NB23, is it scanned negs or scanned prints from the darkroom ?

To answer the thread, i would say that tonality really depends on personal tastes. I mean there's no tonality in Ralph gibson work you only see BLACK and WHITE, but i find his pics so great, it gives a special character
I also have the impression that tonality depends more on the film chosen and how it's processed than the choice of lens.

They're all scanned. And that makes it difficult to really like a film over another one. The grain is not the same, the tonality, smoothness and raw grain is lost... The umph is hard to seize.