[LRflex] Re: leicareflex Digest V4 #299


On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:11 AM, KEITH LONGMORE wrote:


Ted, Steve
I can't really answer properly at this time, because I'm about to head for the airport and sunny Detroit. But, very quickly....Ted I remember your statement, quoted by another forum member that colour photographs show the clothes and black and white the soul (as near verbatim as I remember it). I actually don't think B/W shows the soul, either.
I disagree... bw can truly reach the soul, and I feel that often a great bw image has more impact than reality....
As you say in your answer, you can't truly get inside someone's head with photographs. Interesting, perhaps to draw a parallel to the Madeleine McCann affair: it seems that a lot of people think the McCanns are guilty of killing their own child because they don't show the 'right' emotions in the media. Obviously the public has a perception of what it expects to see - but how do you catch that when all you have is a camera? (Whatever the public expectation might be?) And maybe a manager/editor whose only concern is selling copy?
I think here Keith you are taking an enigma, dressing it as a riddle, and putting it inside a black box... 



Steve
Don't think I'm criticising or at all denigrating what you do, indeed, quite the reverse. 

ohhhhhhh....thanks,       I think....
But I was musing over the whole subject area; indeed, a part of it that interests me. (I've always been passionately interested in things historical, good bad, etc., and man's inhumanitiy to man is an enormous part of that.) I'm not sure what I feel about your subjects 

what do you know about my subjects?


more to the point here...do the images have any meaning or impact   ??
and maybe that is a part of the wider issue. I have a clearer sense of what I feel about the subjects that I described, perhaps because they're both personal experience-based and, given that I'm old enough to remember the centre of Coventry in ruins after WWII, with direct contact with people involved, including my own parents and brother, so much closer to my own involvement.
somehow I think we have touched a nerve...and that has helped you express some very deep, complicated feelings... 

they  are hard for us to put together...and completely understand,

and even harder to  fully appreciate,

always willing to listen...
I found it difficult to put on paper what I was trying to say, and answering even more difficult, especially in a hurry. Maybe I'll send off line when I return, rather than cluttering up the forum. And, Ted, I'd be very happy to have a chat around a coffee, but I'm usually several thousand miles away from you - so it's not going to happen, methinks! :-) .....unless it's an e-coffee.... 

sure ...


lets....

:-)


Steve




Cheer for now
Keith
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