Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/22

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Subject: [Leica] aldrick in bw
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Aug 22 15:04:01 2005
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On Aug 21, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Steve Barbour showed: the POWER  of B&W!!!!!
>
>
>> from today...
>> 22 months old, a little Hopi boy will go home to the
>> third mesa,  on Tuesday
>>
>>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-86552.html<<
>>>
>
> Hi Steve mon ami,
>
> It's like "WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>
> What a great example in the "POWER of B&W!" This young boy has far  
> more
> dramatic feeling to it in B&W compared to the picture in colour!  
> Absolutely
> illustrates how colours can, will and do distract from content time  
> after
> time.
>
> The look on this young lads face and the power of his eyes is amazing
> compared to the colour shot of him. If we have doubters in the  
> crowd they
> better have another look at the two pictures, colour vs. B&W! And  
> there
> isn't any comparison which is the more powerful in message!
>
> It truly is "LIGHT-EYES-CONTENT!"
>
> Well done for showing the difference! That's why I've always said
> photographs of war, strife, poverty and the down and out folks have  
> far
> greater impact in B&W than colour.
>
> My feeling on this has very much to do with the advent of colour TV  
> where we
> as humans see the killing, death and destruction in colour every  
> day and
> week of the year on the 6 o'clock news. Therefore we tend to become  
> and have
> become immune to it due to "It's only TV!" Sure that's a discussion  
> subject,
> but far closer to the truth than many would admit!
>
> But show the same subjects in B&W and it's a whole new ball game. :-(
>
> The Marines in the battle for Hue photographs for example.. Look at  
> those in
> colour on the back of the tanks and others during that time in B&W  
> and it
> truly is a completely different visual story and feelings created.
>
> If one wishes to tell and make a point with and about human beings,  
> the best
> route always is in B&W!

I agree Ted, re bw is better...

simpler, more direct, as in poetry versus rhetoric,

and when people see bw it simply signals...this is to be taken  
seriously...

thank you, Steve


In reply to: Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] aldrick in bw)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] aldrick in bw)