Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What was his name? - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 9:14 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: now B&W photography At 07:22 PM 2/16/99 +0100, you wrote: >Let me twist that a bit - if you were interested in black and white, you >would probably pick lithography rather than painting. There was a painter who lost his visual sense of color in an automobile accident. He almost committed suicide. But then he started making black and white paintings and produced some celebrated work. Then, using his memory of color, he started doing color paintings again, and is now famous again for his color. I read about him in the book "An Anthropologist on Mars." Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch I used to have a handle on life, then it broke