Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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