[Leica] Sherlock flunks

[Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>]

>>>Now imagine that - color is a fundamental feature of perception!
Gee, I
never ever realized that.  I wonder if he was the first person in the
history of perception to have this breathtaking insight.  No shit,
Sherlock!<<<


You just flunked a quiz in Photo 101, Introductory History of
Photography.

Do you know ANYTHING about the conditions that existed in serious
photography when Eggleston came to prominence? "Color" meant amateur
Kodachromes of peoples' European vacations and Instamatic snapshots.
Eliot Porter and one or two others were the token "serious" color
photographers. Color got very little respect. Don't make the mistake of
perceiving that comment through the prism of the assumptions that
prevail today.

- --Mike