ABSTRACT
Photographers have little or no sense of colour and if they ever possessed such a quality it has become warped or non-existent through years of disuse. Photographers, in fact, have become so engrossed in the beauty of light and shade and in their deep velvety blacks and sparkling whites that they will tell quite seriously that the colour photograph is unnecessary and unnatural. People have become so used to photographs in black and white that a colour photograph seems to them to be an error in taste. This curious outlook may be attributed partly also to the poor quality of early experiments both in films and still photographs, and also to the painted photograph, which is something entirely different. It was difficult to decide how to set about making beautiful colour photographs because the colour photograph, must be more nearly related to the portrait painted by an imaginative artist than to its blood relation the passport photograph.
