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Subject: [Leica] was - important aspects, now B&W image?
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:15:03 -0800
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Thank you. Exactly my point too.

It's almost never B&W vs. Color, but B&W and Color.

However, my point is that the images that have the maximum impact on the
viewers, chances are they are B&W images.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Montie Talbert <montoid at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> Interesting topic.  I guess one could call me a monochrome
> photography freak!  I love everything about it.  As artistic
> mediums go, it has a vast array of strengths with few limitations
> that could separate an artist's idea from his final work.
>
> IMO, discussions should not be B&W vs Color, rather, B&W AND
> Color.  B&W does not show color.  Color shows color.  Nothing
> is lost.
>
> Montie
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:17 AM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
> > Our aesthetic has been formed by the fact that for a long time the main
> photographic medium was the black and white photograph, and colour was not
> readily available.
> >
> > Do we say that the Mona Lisa should have been in B&W, or any other
> outstanding painting? Painting developed a colour palette a long time ago,
> and this topic doesn't come up in this way any more, if it ever did.
> >
> > As I said before, if colour photography had been invented before or at
> the same time as B&W photography, this whole discussion of B&W vs. colour
> would never exist.
> >
> > All that said, I too have a fondness for B&W photos, and the majority of
> the prints I have are B&W. I too grew up with B&W as the main formative
> photographic aesthetic, and the great photos I saw early on were almost all
> B&W.
>
>
> >>I feel that there's also a very personal part to play in all this.
> I love drawings in pen (brush) and ink, graphite, silver point, et al.
> I love monochromatic etchings, lithographs and engravings.
> I love black and white photographs.
> I admire fine use of color in paintings, prints and photographs.
> Though my true love seems to rest in strong monochrome graphics.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
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