Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/28

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Subject: [Leica] On color
From: "Roy Feldman" <royfel@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:14:42 PST
 
The quote everyone remembers from Walker Evans is "Color-photography is 
vulgar"; the part that is seldom quoted is his follow up line:"When the 
point of a picture is precisely its vulgarity or its color-accident through 
man's hand, not God's, then only can color film be used validly."

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