Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica]now:B&W photography
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:40:43 -0600

At 05:07 PM 2/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Most interesting about all this is that Dogma 95 specifically says that
>films should be shot in color. I don't know what to make of this, except
>to guess that they are reacting against some pretentious independent
>filmmakers' use of black and white.

I think it's more like black and white is not "real." It abstracts the 
subject. So color seems to be a quite logical principle for such a strange 
idea as Dogma 95. Does Bill Gates own stock?
:-)

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

The Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it Art?   - 
Rudyard Kipling