Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This line that "colour shows the soul/spirit" while B&W shows folk's clothing has always struck me as the opinion of an idiot clod. Since before time immemorial, people have chosen the clothes they wear. They do not choose their "souls," neither do they choose the colour of their skin nor the colour of their eyes or their hair (although the latter is easily altered). The clothes & adornments people choose to wear constitute a very telling and intimate expression of their personality, their self-image, their place (in their mind's choices) in this world, within their particular culture and time. Would any of us see Marilyn Monroe as a green-eyed red-head, not the blond she CHOSE to be? There are thousands of other examples. I am all for colour. I don't hate B&W but I do not celebrate it as superior. Great artists have always sketched in B&W (pencil or charcoal, for example). Their great works are always in full colour. Even ancient sculpture had colour infill. Great ancient Egyptian tomb art is mostly in colour. Life is in colour. B&W is an illusion resulting from a technological deficiency. Take B&W photos if it pleases you and if it matches your mindset. But to promote it as inherently superior is just plain silly. Emanuel