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Subject: [Leica] eica] Carnival se?orita B&W
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 22:36:12 +0100
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Le 7 mars 11 ? 22:08, Lluis Ripoll a ?crit :

>
> Philippe,
>
> Thank you very much for your opinion. Definitely I love the Carmen  
> role, but this one don't represent Carmen for me, first at all she  
> has not a Spanish face, she is probably from Latin America, secondly  
> - and this is a very interesting subject to discuss - I don't  
> conceive Carmen as a mature woman, I think was Mortier (Brussel's La  
> Monnaie Opera House Director, now of Teatro Real in Madrid) that has  
> represented a Carmen as a young woman "una gitanilla" (a young  
> gipsy) with the "certain inocence" and caprices of a wonderful  
> seductrice young woman. Carmen is an opera I like very much, Merim?e  
> has created a great role and Bizet a great music, when I'm in  
> Sevilla and I walk through "El barrio de Triana" the Bizet's music  
> comes automatically to mine head....
>

Look at her dress, her mean, her demeanour, the glint in her eyes,  
everything says she wants to be a Carmensita, may have been, should be  
allowed to still be - we lose all this in the conversion to BW, an  
irremediable loss - why do you think she dressed up in black and red  
in the first place ?
Nathan might even add "eye-contact" :-)

Now to M?rim?e and to the opera: I don't think, but you may disagree,  
that Carmen is either a Zingarella or a Spanish woman at all; she is  
the incarnation of the femme fatale. And I think there's no age for  
this; there are love stories in old people's homes, drama, passion,  
and tension too. Carmen could even be overweight as long as, as in  
Jim's latest delivery, she finds someone to look at her differently,  
passionately. Could be not me though I'm afraid.

Sans rancune?

Bonne soir?e bandido meu :-)
Philippe le rouge et le noir as in Stendhal


> Mopnsieur Escamillo thank you very much.... from Don Jos?
>
> Saludos
> Lluis
>
>
>
> El 07/03/2011, a las 21:00, philippe.amard escribi?:
>
>> I beg to differ - Carmen is Carmen Luis, we can't change this so it  
>> is colour.
>> http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1651&bih=1068&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=bizet+carmen&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
>> BW? no way, she'd look like an old ???
>>
>> Amiti?s
>> Escamillo von Bizet
>>
>> Le 7 mars 11 ? 20:39, Lluis Ripoll a ?crit :
>>
>>>
>>> Alan,
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your opinion, the LUG is a fantastic  
>>> place! I see... I was wrong. As Ted has said once, one self is the  
>>> worst possibe editor of his own pictures!
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Lluis
>>>
>>>
>>> El 07/03/2011, a las 19:40, Alan Magayne-Roshak escribi?:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011  Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mark Pope suggested that this picture could be a good B&W
>>>>> candidate...., here you are:
>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1018691BWS.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>>> As said ....I think color version is better
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1018691w.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c will be appreciated
>>>>
>>>>> Saludos cordiales
>>>>> Lluis
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>>>> ===================================================================
>>>> Lluis, I think the B&W is better.  The color one is too much  
>>>> about the red in the dress (and background).  The B&W lets us see  
>>>> her face and appreciate her as a person; the color is too murky  
>>>> for us to relate to the expression.
>>>>
>>>> Alan
>>>>
>>>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>>>> UPAA POY 1978
>>>> University Information Technology Services
>>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>>>>
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Replies: Reply from lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll) ([Leica] eica] Carnival se?orita B&W)
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