[LRflex] Re: question for Ted Grant or anyone if they know the answer-Marc


On Dec 19, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Marc Dufour wrote:


Steve,
... which demostrates that in photography, as in many things, we can acheive results with very differents tools and following different ways, without statements which exclude or invalidate other options. 
Thank you very much for your understanding and exquisite manners.
thanks for allowing me to participate Marc.. I find your work inspiring but realize you almost entirely shoot in color, which is a big part of the beauty of your images, often even adding to them...and their soul,
though I wonder whether in some cases, the impact may be even greater with a stark bw presetation...
it would be particularly interesting (especially if done by you) to select a few promising ones, and show them to us as bw renditions... 

Steve




Best,
Marc
and what energes Marc is much more than surreptitious "street shooting"... your work is glorious, and you do make a very strong case for your point of view, that color is part of the soul.... 


perhaps more later,
Steve




----- Original Message -----
From: Philippe Amard
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:49 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: question for Ted Grant or anyone if they know the answer-Marc
What a wonderful gallery of portraits - a pure motley of souls inside. Very impressive artistic and compassionate work you're showing us here compiled. How do you manage to do that? I mean, getting permission from total strangers to pose for you, apparently, and conveying this sense of getting "caught" in their very essence as human beings. 
Great work.These are masterpieces:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+I/Farmer+in+Rajastan.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+IV/Not+a+common+face.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+III/Country +girl.jpg.html 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+IV/Intensity.jpg.html

My favourite ?
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+II/Men+at+work +I.jpg.html 
Deserves a capital WOW to the square.

Thanks for sharing them all.
Phil...x
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Marc Dufour wrote:

Ted,

A fine sentence, but I only can disagree with it.
BTW, I think the B&W is often use as an easy way to achieve a more dramatic result. 

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+I/Absorption.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+I/Farmer+in+Rajastan.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+II/Good +friends.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+II/Men+at+work +I.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+II/Jaipur +faces.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+III/Country +girl.jpg.html 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+III/Mother_s+pride.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+IV/Charming+people.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+IV/Intensity.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+IV/Ivana.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/People+IV/Not+a+common+face.jpg.html
I hope the colours and clothes don't prevent to perceive their soul... 
Best regards,
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Grant
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:09 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: question for Ted Grant or anyone if they know the answer 

Hi Dave,
Yes it’s mine and it’s this way:
“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.
But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”
Mine for a great number of years.
Thanks for asking and your compliment. J
ted
From: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] On Behalf Of Dave Saalsaa 
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:08 AM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: question for Ted Grant or anyone if they know the answer 
Hey Ted,
Did you coin this phrase? "If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black & white, you will show the color of their soul" 
If you did, good one. If not, do you know who did?
Dave


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