On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > The rabbit costume has head-shape (and I think angle-in-the-photo) > issues that make it look less like a rabbit and more like some sort of > giant, child-eating weasel.
Yes! > In the colour version, the happy bright easter colours and the coded > cultural response to them reduce (but do not, to my eye, eliminate) this > effect. I think you're right. > In the black and white, the effect of the colours isn't present and the > impression of incipient violent carnivory is strengthened. Well said - I think you've explained my reaction better than I have - come to think of it, I didn't explain my reaction, I just reported what it was. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
