Bad Made Better and Better Made Worse

[johnastovall]

"In and around the Seventies, the news magazines began to increase the number of color pages – as much to service advertisers that wanted color ads as to bring color photojournalism to their readers. Over the following years, newspapers would also begin to print much more color.

And one newsmagazine would even bill itself as the "colorful newsweekly." That always struck me as one dangerous step away from the "perky newsweekly."



The rest of Bill Pierce's essay on the danger of color in reportage photography...


"Color is powerful stuff. A small percentage of news photographs are actually improved by it. A small percent are ruined by it. Neither outcome has much to do with the photographer."