Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:31 AM 11/29/1999 +0100, Alan Hull wrote: >I think so too. I have read that 80 per-cent of people dream in black >and white, and recall past events in black and white. So I suppose >that as a photograph is a record of a past event it sits better on the >psychic if colour is muted. That's interesting. I think I dream in color most of the time. There are times when I do but mostly I don't notice. I think we're nostalgic when we see black and white also becuase history is so well covered in that medium. WW II was almost exclusively black and white - at least for the famous photos. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. -Ernst Haas, "More Joy of Photography"