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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: was Pisac Market - now colours
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:26:12 +0100
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Steve Barbour wrote:

>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> At 03:51 PM 3/1/2009, you wrote:
>>
>>> it's sort of a paradox, I know the color sells better, but you can
>>> only say ..."look at the beautiful colors" in so many ways, then it
>>> becomes redundant...
>>>
>>> color has replaced content...
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>> I agree, Steve, and I almost always prefer B&W, but for some  
>> cultures, color is such an important part of their lives that to  
>> leave it out seems to be leaving out part of their character.  In  
>> Peru, all of their handicrafts, clothes, weavings - everything that  
>> they surround themselves with is brilliantly colored.  Out in the  
>> rural areas, their homes are made of adobe mud - dark brown - and  
>> most do not have electricity.  It's all dark and drab and mud- 
>> colored except for the bright splashes of their weavings.  I think  
>> in this case, color is part of the content and has not replaced it.   
>> I do intend to try most of them both ways.  So far, I've only looked  
>> at the jpegs - half of which are B&W and half color.  I'm sure I'll  
>> end up switching in some cases, but right now I'm sticking with my  
>> original decision.
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>
> I do understand Tina and it's a tough call; we have discussed this  
> dilemma before.   Color is essential from one perspective, but it has  
> obvious negatives, and if you want to sell the photos, common wisdom  
> is that color is necessary...
>
> Just the obvious question ..why is color necessary to the people


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Morris
Reading the Naked Ape might provide some clues

Amiti?s Philippe


> and  to the photos..brings up an interesting deep question, why is 
> color  added on by the people to their customary drab lives...?
> what would you see if you looked underneath ie beyond  the color ? It  
> does raise the interesting possibility that you would see the people  
> quite differently...
>
>





> Steve
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>> Tina
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>> Tina Manley
>> www.tinamanley.com
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Replies: Reply from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] IMGS: was Pisac Market - now colours)
In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMGS: Pisac Market)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] IMGS: Pisac Market)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMGS: Pisac Market)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] IMGS: Pisac Market)