Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<Felix mon ami, <The idea is: <"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. One need <only look at the portraits by Yousuf Karsh! <I don't want to get into a big thing on this, but is it not a kind of <accepted notion that B&W is a more powerful medium when photographing people <than colour? Partially because the viewer can use their imagination to add <colour if they wish or accept the B&W photograph as all revealing. <ted <Ted Grant Photography Limited <www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant Ted, amigo mio Just your opinion I strongly and warmly respect. I do truly believe that many,many,many of us do shoot b&w pictures of anybody in anywhere, anytime and believe we've got great pictures. It's firing "à la Bresson" or "à la Sieff". It seems that anything in b&w it's a outstanding picture if, besides, has been taken with a Leica. No, let me say clearly, NO. There are many pictures, even in the LUG, in b&w that are banal, trivial, vulgar, that show people in their ordinary life without any interest but never the decisive moment or anything like that if it does exist. We are specialized in saying other member "your picture is great!". I rarely said that, and never about my own pictures. And so often many pictures lacked merely color. I remember a LUG member who showed a flower macro picture in b&w! It's very difficult to manage properly color. I admire, for instance, the Ernst Haas work for the way he managed color. Bresson, Sief, and all of them are today out. There is plenty of space for investigating new ways. Just have a look to the non photojournalist contests those where pure art is involved and you'll see new and creative ways. Just have a look to the young photographers. They are very, very creative. Very often we cannot understand their work but always it's interesting. LUG curse me but, please, awake up! PJ are other field as they have to get reality in a dramatic way, Their pictures have to show exactly what is happening. I dared to replay this to you Ted, one of the most rspectable member of the list, quite the contrary am I, because, as you, I am not young, just 50 years taking pictures, so that I do not believe in topics. Truly warms regards Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html