[Leica] Color vs B&W

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:51 PM, EPL <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote:

> This line that "colour shows the soul/spirit" while B&W shows folk's
> clothing has always struck me as the opinion of an idiot clod.


huh,  hitting the bottle again?

> 
> Since before time immemorial, people have chosen the clothes they wear.
> 
> They do not choose their "souls," neither do they choose the colour of 
> their
> skin nor the colour of their eyes or their hair (although the latter is
> easily altered).
> 
> The clothes & adornments people choose to wear constitute a very telling 
> and
> intimate expression of their personality, their self-image, their place (in
> their mind's choices) in this world, within their particular culture and
> time.

I guess we should start painting all the marble statues.....


> Would any of us see Marilyn Monroe as a green-eyed red-head, not the blond
> she CHOSE to be?
> 
> There are thousands of other examples.
> 
> I am all for colour. I don't hate B&W but I do not celebrate it as 
> superior.
> 
> Great artists have always sketched in B&W (pencil or charcoal, for 
> example).
> Their great works are always in full colour.
> 
> Even ancient sculpture had colour infill. Great ancient Egyptian tomb art 
> is
> mostly in colour.
> 
> Life is in colour. B&W is an illusion resulting from a technological
> deficiency.
> 
> Take B&W photos if it pleases you and if it matches your mindset. But to
> promote it as inherently superior is just plain silly.
> 
> Emanuel
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