Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html