Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: B&W vs Colour (was National Geographic)
From: "telyt@earthlink.net" <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:12:11 -0400

Andrew Nemeth <azn@nemeng.com> wrote:
 
> Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> >"When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes!
> >But when you photograph them in B&W you photograph their souls!"
> >
> >As in meaning the B&W is more revealing as it shows the innerself.
>
>
> I know this is said tongue-in-cheek, but you're *completely* wrong here 
> Ted.
>
> "B&W is dumbing-down"
> 
> "Mislead in B&W, tell the truth in colour"
>
> And to close with Russell Miller at p.4 of "Magnum - fifty
> years at the front line of history":
>
> "If colour film had been invented first, would anybody even
> <I>contemplate</I> photographing in black and white?"
>

I happen to think that color adds a hell of a lot to Steve McCurry's 1985 photo of Sharbat Gula (a.k.a. "the Afgan girl") 
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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