[Leica] Color vs B&W

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Not worth responding to this post when the poster can't even get the 
original quotation correct and understand the meaning after all the years it 
as been around the world and back. Pity!

thank you.
Dr. ted.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Color vs B&W


> 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
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