Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: now B&W photography
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:14:28 -0600

At 07:22 PM 2/16/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Let me twist that a bit - if you were interested in black and white, you
>would probably pick lithography rather than painting.

There was a painter who lost his visual sense of color in an automobile 
accident. He almost committed suicide. But then he started making black and 
white paintings and produced some celebrated work. Then, using his memory 
of color, he started doing color paintings again, and is now famous again 
for his color. I read about him in the book "An Anthropologist on Mars."

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

I used to have a handle on life, then it broke