Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:00 PM 9/5/98 +0200, you wrote: >"wrong" reasons: b&w advertisements are everywhere (posters, magazines), >b&w reappears in motion images (video clips, etc), b&w is used again in >photojournalism. This is what I call a "gimmick", a trick to attract >attention from an audience saturated with high quality colour images and >all too willing to like prefab nostalgia. This I have to disagree with, in terms of photojournalism. It's always held strong in p.j., though color comes and goes in popularity. For daily work, color is the norm. But for personal work, and extended photo essays where the subject is primary, the black and white wins often over color, because it's easier to "read." Because it "looks" better in black and white. And mainly, because available light is tough to do in color unless you're a genius, like William Albert Allard, Sam Abell, Ernst Haas, etc. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Analogies in writng are like feathers on a snake.