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Sep 4
Color, Photos, and One Fuzzy Little Boy in a Field
Nice post by Merlin Mann on the effects of a color photograph in an era of black and white.
When done well, these images help repudiate the implicit modern reading that pre-color photography realistically captured the simple but alien lives of people who were neither as complex, interesting, nor sophisticated as we CMYK people are.

Color, Photos, and One Fuzzy Little Boy in a Field

Nice post by Merlin Mann on the effects of a color photograph in an era of black and white.

When done well, these images help repudiate the implicit modern reading that pre-color photography realistically captured the simple but alien lives of people who were neither as complex, interesting, nor sophisticated as we CMYK people are.

(Source: loc.gov)


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