Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, Agreed with everything you say! Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 8:33 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > I take your point about the graphic arts, but what we consider the > pinnacle > > of the artist's talent is always in the colour medium - oils, watercolour > or > > nowadays, increasingly acrylic. > > > Certainly when we consider the art of "painting" > we tend to expect the use of color. > > When we think of Ric Carter or or Doug Herr photographs > we expect color. > > When I think of your photographs I expect either color or B&W; > and generally find your black and white photographs more powerful > and memorable. > > The only point I wish to make is that the choice is subjective and > aesthetic > for both creator and viewer. > > I believe that <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=5130> > demonstrates a situation where color actually gets in the way of the > substance. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >