x6 parts of the stax show are here:
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x6 parts of the stax show are here:
Full LP
Proper engineering!
There’s every reason you ever need right there in that photo to buy German.
This is an absolutely remarkable piece of work - similar in effect to They Shall Never Grow Old
Her website is tremendous
Somehow the b & w pics have more atmosphere.
There is something compelling about ww2 in colour though.
Yes in many ways. Colour somehow modernizes though. When you consider the above wasn’t so long ago, somehow the colour pics afford a different kind of impact to B&W.
I prefer black and white photographs in general but the colour and digitally restored ones definitely adds a different slant to them.
As I used to do some desk-top publishing I’m fascinated by the process Marina Amaral uses to restore and colourise her work.
I don’t dislike the colour ones, just a preference for b & w.
I got the complete works of Laurel & Hardy on DVD some years ago. Many had been, very cleverly, turned into colour versions. I couldn’t get away with them, much preferring the originals. Fortunately both versions were on the DVD’s.
Don’t let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons
I’m not surprised. Some of the early Technicolor movies were truly awful. The Caine Mutiny was a case in point. Great film, shocking colours.
Black and white typically gives a timeless sense to a photo which I generally prefer too.
The Amaral colorised Auschwitz registration photos though are shocking because they look so contemporaneous, like they were taken a few minutes ago…almost unbearable to look at.
Most colorisation is for me a little artificial and seems a little gimmicky. The Amaral Photoshop processing is however very subtle and appears realistic, very clever and compelling. Thanks Allan.
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The important thing for me is the painstaking research she does to ensure the work she undertakes is as accurate as possible. I will leave the Auschwitz photos for another time too harrowing.
I’ve bought the book Ben so look forward to reading it.