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Subject: [Leica] Color vs B&W
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:29:55 -0800
References: <CCED779A.13C14%manolito@videotron.ca> <6961F60394D940C9B95E2402D4A03441@syneticfeba505>

On Dec 12, 2012, at 8:00 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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.




occurs to me this concerns how they want to be seen, not how they are.



Steve



>> 
>> 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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