Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well we really have cleared up this whole b&w versus color question anyway. I'm glad. The black and white are of course gorgeous and all you need but I STRONGLY disagree that the comment that the color suggest death. I found just the opposite. The color and light is 'lighter", less grave, less serious and austere, more springlike, in the blog pics. Many of them have faces that have seen a lot of laghter and it does not diminish the project to show that. The men -- I never knew any women who'd served -- the men of my father's generation NEVER TALKED about it. Never, and not a one. (This is not true of Vietnam vets by the way, in my experience -- not so universally true in any case). As a kid I'd ask and they shut up like mollusks. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:03 PM, <briandavidstevens at talk21.com> wrote: > Hi LUGers > > As some of you may remember for the past 7 years on remembrance day I have > been shooting portraits of veterans, the portraits are all shot in the same > style, crop etc, I am aiming to keep shooting it for at least another 3 > years. The project is based around the concept of The Unknown Soldier > > > This is the intro from the book proposal > > "...They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. > Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. > At the going down of the sun and in the morning > We will remember them..." > > from Laurence Binyon's 'The Fallen' (first published in The Times, 21st > September 1914) > > "They that are left..." : 'Remembrance' portraits. > > Each year they are older, and as they do indeed grow old, as age does weary > them and as the years do now condemn them more to what they still remember > than to our truly remembering what they fought for (which is very simple : > us), > they thus become unknown. > These faces then are as of unknown soldiers > : no cap badges, no ribbons of spooling medals, no insignia for military > rank. Faces, only. Each deep-etched with who they are and what they did, > that we might look, and think -- and thank them. > there's a sample of the work here > http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9423 > in a slideshow format > > I've recently processed some of these in colour which may lead to an > offshoot project > > http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/2010/03/colour_31.html > > do they work as well as the black and whites? > > Comments and opinions welcomed! > thanks for your time! > > Brian > > > Brian David Stevens > http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >