Re: You decide.

[Robert Erickson <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Which is better color or black and white: http://www.panoramic.net/color
The works of Durer, Goya, Rembrnadt, Daumier in Color and B&W

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Zinn <azinn@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: I believe it is OK to have fun too.


Bob,
For someone who has two MA's in art you sure come up with some duseys.  You
are saying in effect, that Durer, Goya, Rembrnadt, Daumier, to name only a
few "Old Masters" sat at the back of the room and got only the black
crayons. Where in the world did you learn that the medium had anything
whatsoever to do with art?


Alan,
There are those in the art world who say that the medium is everything! To
express yourself artistically the first step is to choose the medium. Art
without medium is called dreaming.

Perhaps, when you choose these artiest you were thinking of their print
works. If you were to see an original you would see that they typically used
brown inks on yellow paper. NOT black on white.

BTW- Ansel Adams was a trained concert pianist. His passion was writing
poetry. Funny how we remember him for what started as his hobby,
photography.

Ansel Adams on print toning:
It is my personal opinion that the only satisfactory way to change the
natural color of a print and improve its values is to tone the image very
slightly - not to produce an obvious color, but to supplant the original
"chemical color", which may be unpleasant. The result of slight toning
should be a suggestion of cool-purple sepia; I feel that this is the most
vital and effective modification of the color of the silver image. Although
the treatment may have but slight physical effect on the brilliance of the
image, it has a profound emotional effect. A well-toned print impresses one
as being of considerably greater brilliance than the image untoned.

Even Ansel agrees, color wins over black and white.

Bob