> > I'd say that it's right up there with cat photos. > Black & white cats painted ginger, perhaps.
> Seriously a lot of the same arguments against coloring photos could be > made against photos as art, rather than painting. > Did Dylan get upset when the Byrds or Hendrix did better versions of > his songs? This is a false analogy because songs are about performance, whereas documentary photography is not. As a song analogy I would compare it to Santana covering Guerilla / Africa Bamba and giving himself a writing credit for it just because he tacked some piece of old crap on it. > If someone colorized my van when it was parked on the street I'd be > upset. If someone started with one of my photos for their own artwork > I'd be flattered. If they went and sold it, I would want a cut of the > action. > I think this coloured photo thing is very skillful technically, but pointless and uninteresting. If people want to treat it as art that's up to them, but in my opinion it's bad art. I don't have any issues with the ethics of it any more than I do with Duchamp drawing a moustache and goatee on the Mona Lisa, provided that copyright etc. are respected. B > Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >On 1/19/2012 23:38, Kenneth Waller wrote: > >> > >> > >> What's next? Will she produce B&W images from someones color prints? > >> > >> Seems wrong to me. she should go out and produce some original work > >of her own ! > > > >I think I'm in this camp too... Remember the film colorization mess a > >few years back?? > > > >I think it's fine for people to hand tint their _own_ photos, but > >no matter how skilled she is at doing these they are iconic news > >photos and it seems so unnecessary. Especially when most of thes > >photos > >were produced when color photography existed. And before that, there > >were paintings in color... bringing the color into bW photos for a > >documentary purpose alone, hmm, maybe ok... but this is art for arts > >sake it seems, and not her own, as Ken said. I just can't wrap by old > >brain around this. > > > >I think I saw some of her work at the Met recently and it pissed me > off > > > >then, too. > > > >ann -- 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.
