Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > > I've always felt Colour is Sensual. Where B&W is Intellectual. > It shows much more of the innerself of the subject than colour. > If we consider that when we photograph people in colour, we photograph > their clothes. But when we photograph people in B&W, we photograph > their souls! It might give greater meaning to the emotional aspect of > B&W over colour. Ted, interesting that you should phrase it like that: I've always considered B&W to be much more sensual, because of the very arguments that you present above! OTOH, colour, to me, is more cerebral, because it activates the mind to recognize people, places, things, whatnot. It pictures something. B&W conveys emotion, reaching beyond the pictorial. I think we get similar experiences from B&W and colour, but it's also interesting that we use opposite "labels" for those experiences. M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just "DOHH" it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho