Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W and forever the iconoclast
From: John Hudson <jahudson@direct.ca>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:56:05 -0800

At 09:58 PM 15-02-99 -0500, Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote:

>At 06:23 PM 2/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>I see, so B&W is the holy grail of films...ehhh!  Gosh, those modern fools
>>like Galen Rowell, Annie Leibovitz, et al  they should know better than to
>>use color slide film.  After all they are only famous and worth near
>>millions of US$.  Ashame.....
>>
>>Peter K
>>
>>	(Tina, just opinion.  Is there another photographer aside Ted (nice
>>line by the way Ted) that is still alive and feels this way, refusing to use
>>colors nowadays?  Doubtful.)
>>
>
>Ted uses color - when it's appropriate.  So do I, but I prefer black and
>white.  I have a slide show that I have given to at least 20 audiences
>comparing very similar black and white and color photographs.  At the end,
>I ask which people prefer.  8 out of 10 prefer black and white.  All of my
>photographs are of people.  The only people photographs I can think of
>where color adds anything are indigenous people in their native costumes
>and then you're photographing the clothes, not the people.  I hope to have
>a web page up tomorrow illustrating this.

Please avail the list of the URL as soon as possible.

jh