Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Depression FSA Kodachromes
From: azn at nemeng.com (Andrew Nemeth)
Date: Sat Sep 25 19:22:17 2004
References: <200405312248.i4VMhlRi025690@server1.waverley.reid.org>

On 01/06/2004, at 8:48 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> Depression FSA Kodachromes

 >  
<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2004/05/07/magazine/ 
20040509PORT_SLIDESHOW_1.html>


Wow - fascinating stuff.  Colour makes them look far more immediate
and real, almost as if the scenes depicted were happening now.

By contrast, monochrome looks much more harmlessly abstract,
"artistic" and consequently much less threatening.

All this is IMO, YMMV etc.  :?)





Regds,

Andrew Nemeth
Blue Mountains  NSW   Australia
<http://nemeng.com>



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