Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And following the exotism reasoning, I don't think sepia is the way to do it either, for it does exactly the same. Cfr. the last page of National Geographic: this always gives me the feeling of looking at images that are 1: Long gone 2: Very patronizing, as if documenting animals in the zoo. But this is really my 2 cents. > From: Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:53:51 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Conversation: [Leica] Black and White > Subject: Re: [Leica] Black and White > > I don't think B&W has anything to do with traditionalism. > Just think 'Nachtwey': I'd call his work more timeless than > traditionalistic. > Not that I have anything against color, but in this case it seems to add an > exotic sense to the photographs, and I'm not sure if that is what Tina > wants > to convey. > Karen's work is a different kind of photography: most of the photographs I > looked at have a very neutral, almost cold, color range, which sticks > better to 'reportage' IMO than the vivid colors I see in Tina's work. > Maybe desaturating and shifting the colors a bit might help to keep the > 'more realisitc' feeling one has looking at them in B&W. > >> From: "R. Clayton McKee" <leica@rcmckee.com> >> Organization: Freelance Photojournalist >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:58:28 -0500 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Black and White >> >> On 12 Oct 2005 at 13:06, Tina Manley wrote: >> >>> So far, the vote is 14 for B&W, 7 for color, 4 for Sepia, and 4 >>> undecided (including me). >> >> I'm gonna vote "Yes" and argue that "better" or "Not Better" says >> more about the viewers than the photographs, all of which are to one >> degree or another exceptionally fine. I don't think I can >> comfortably make a statement that the group as a whole should be one >> or the other; many I like both ways -- though they do seem to have >> different meanings, when treated differently. >> >> I think perhaps BD came close, that B&W is Documentary, but I'd think >> that in this case the degree of intimacy and comfort in the photos >> suggests that the color set is more akin to perhaps Karen's idea of >> photoethnography than to it is to tourism. The color sense in the >> pictures isn't secondary, it's an intrinsic part of the indigenous >> culture and mindspace. >> >> It's not surprising that of the LUG would go for B&W, though; with >> the possible exception of Kyle we're all to one degree or another >> traditionalists and this is a classic execution of traditional B&W >> subject matter. >> >> Thanks, Tina. >> >> -- >> >> >> R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com >> Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com >> P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 >> Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >