Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Color was simply too expensive and troublesome for most photographers. Early amateur color prints from negatives left a lot to be desired, and slides were a pain in the neck to view. In fact, Kodak once noted that color pictures didn't outnumber black and white until 1964. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner Sent: Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:20 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Unpublished D-Day COLOR images They should pass a law to make WWII a black and white war. We all get really thrown seeing that era in color. It doesn't look real. Schicklgruber looks odd in color playing with Blondie who also looks bad in color. So do our people and the landscape. We'd like to pretend color was a post war innovation for some reason. I think color film became easily available on the shelves a few years after WWII. Ernst Hass started with it buying it in camera stores in NY in 1949. A few years later his double issue spread in LIFE of his color work which in some way put color on the map. On 6/7/13 10:47 PM, "Jay Burleson" <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote: > http://life.time.com/history/after-d-day-unpublished-color-photos-from > -normand > y-summer-1944/#1 -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information