Re: OK to have fun/color

[Charles Tait <charles.tait@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In that case why bother to have colour vision.  To say that art has to be B&W is
to go against the vast majority of people's views, not that that is any reason
not to have any opinion.  In fact what I think you mean is that you personally
have this feeling about monochrome.  It is a perfectly valid point of view which
I share to an extent.  It is just that the punters who actually spend money and
use pictures see in colour.  Sad but true most of the time.

I cant remember the last time that anyone used one of my B&W pictures or colour
pictures in B&W even.  Maybe this will change with new methods of outputting
images, maybe not.

Charles Tait

Alan Zinn wrote:

> >
> >If you permit me, may I, as promised, start another discussion?
> >
> >A famous photographer once told me that real photography, as art, should
> >always be in black and white. What do you think?
>
> Herman,
>
> That is a good area for discussion I think.  I don't like absolutes - black
> or white thinking - but I think b/w photography is better suited for art.
> Don't want to offend Kodachrome lovers but I think color is best left to
> painters.
> Color is too powerful.  There is no way to control it in the wild. Of
> course, someone will scream and holler about Elliot Porter, Meunch (sp?), et
> al.  They are masters of depicting the colors of the natural world. I put
> them in a special category of decorative illustration. Another example of
> color art photography I believe works are tableau photos where the artist
> has complete control over everything.
>
> In our previous discussion about journalism photos I think Christine R. said
> there was a risk of them being too photogenic.  Color has such a strong
> gestalt that it often dominates (and obfuscates) the image. Hideous things
> often have beautiful colors. One example I vividly recall was in an essay
> about prostitution.  It was an image of a dying, syphilitic woman with
> wonderful color that was gorgeously illuminated.
> AZ
>
> >
> >
> >
> Lookaround Cameras are more fun.
>
> See cameras and pictures at:
> http://www.keva.com/lookaround
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8874
>
> Also at Cafe Society Gallery:
> http://www.curdev.hull.ac.uk/root/cafe/cafegal.htm
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