Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] Depression FSA Kodachromes
From: mlpowell at sbcglobal.net (Matthew Powell)
Date: Mon May 31 18:18:42 2004
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On May 31, 2004, at 7:32 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:
> Red dress, and tending cotton on rented land...And by saying they work
> as color images I mean they work as images that are ABOUT the color -
> I'm not saying that they work as documents that are in color...This
> collection includes some images that weren't in the Magazine, btw....

I'm not sure that's a fair line to draw in assessing the images - we 
don't judge most B&W shots as being 'about the gray tones.' Color and 
tonality are one element of many, especially in something like this 
(that weren't fine-art or color abstracts).

The faded, ancient look of the chromes is a benefit to them being about 
the color - it's a level of abstraction (as we don't see in that faded 
color palette) much like B&W.


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