Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry your apology accepted! :-) In any event, thank you, as I had not meant any offence as I was merely re-acting to how my photographic life evolved and the experinces through the years as a professional.. Actually I found your response most interesting and educational. And I certainly understand your comment about blood being red and brain matter gray having been in two war zones as a photojournalist. 1967 6 Day War Middle East and 1968 Viet Nam. So body parts? I well understand. Or in a much better environment.... "hospital OR's on and off during the past 40 years!" :-) :-) I completely agree with you on your technical points for reproduction during the early years of printing and reproduction and the advances since the age of digital. I thought I should clarify a comment as the indicated number of images are from my assignments only! The numbers quoted are specific for the Ted Grant Collection held by the National Archives of Canada as the largest collection by a single photographer in the history of Canada. And in another building a few blocks away, there are another 100,000 B&W negatives edited from documentary assignmment projects I shot for the National Film Board of Canada across the country on almost every conceivable subject from birthing to death. Only today they are in the National Gallery of Canada vaults. >>> Ted tries to support the dominance of B&W as preferable in news >>> photography > by saying "the 280,000 images in the National Archives of Canada > collection? > It's probably 75% B&W, 25% colour. Again simply because of the assignment > and whether magazine assignments, travel or tourism or whether the client > asked specifically to shoot in whatever medium." An easy effort to support when my comment was about my own assignments for publications and other clients. :-) However this is really a round table discussion topic with a beer and a bunch of folks chatting it up, rather than the back and forth of the internet. Some day it would indeed be a great pleasure to chat up a photo storm with you one on one and or with a bunch of the crew. cheers, ted