Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] More on Color
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:03:39 -0500

At 11:49 AM 11/28/1999 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote:
>I do think that in general, color photography is insipid and pedestrian;
>at worst, a mere record, at best, decorative. Who was it who said that
>you can have color or value, but not both? Cezanne? In any case, color
>distracts: it masks form, competes with value (by value I mean
>light-and-dark), and overpowers meaning.

I agree.  "Black and white is art, colour is snapshots," and, like all
generalities, this is sometimes untrue.  But when I want to DOCUMENT
something, it is schwarz-weiss, and C41, E6, and K14 be damned.

I do like an occasional colour thing, and I even enjoy Ilfochroming slides.
 But these tend to be family things, and nothing of earth-shaking nature.
For those, I'll use black and white.

Marc

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