Re: Larry 3D as ART etc.

[P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxx>]

Bob Howard wrote:

> I will just note
> that when color became available, the photographers avoided it like the
> plague as color detracted from mass and composition

They were right... it does!  8--)

And many, many fine photographers still do prefer (and do their best work 
with) monochrome photography for this reason, in _spite_ of the fact that our 
visual cultural "grammar" has become so saturated with color imagery for the 
last 50 years. Film makers, too!

(Or, on second thought, perhaps is it _because_ of this saturation!)

Are these effects surmountable? Is it possible to art direct and compose 
effective color photographs? Could color under certain circumstances enhance 
composition or mass? Absolutely, undeniably, without question. But none of 
this changes what I would consider to be the inherent fact that the mechanics 
of perception and cognition render color photography a medium which 
ordinarily detracts from mass and composition when compared with black and 
white photography.

And now, back to 3D...   8--)


Eric G.


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