Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:49 AM 11/28/1999 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote: >I do think that in general, color photography is insipid and pedestrian; >at worst, a mere record, at best, decorative. Who was it who said that >you can have color or value, but not both? Cezanne? In any case, color >distracts: it masks form, competes with value (by value I mean >light-and-dark), and overpowers meaning. I agree. "Black and white is art, colour is snapshots," and, like all generalities, this is sometimes untrue. But when I want to DOCUMENT something, it is schwarz-weiss, and C41, E6, and K14 be damned. I do like an occasional colour thing, and I even enjoy Ilfochroming slides. But these tend to be family things, and nothing of earth-shaking nature. For those, I'll use black and white. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!