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I'm not sure I understand the argument. They people weren't grey scale either. The photo itself re-writes history, this is just an abstraction to make it more

I'm not sure I understand the argument. They people weren't grey scale either. The photo itself re-writes history, this is just an abstraction to make it more visually distinctive. Sure maybe the car was a slight shade of red different, but it certainly wasn't grey.

JadeNB 11y ago
> I'm not sure I understand the argument. They people weren't grey scale either. The photo itself re-writes history, this is just an abstraction to make it more visually distinctive. I think the claim is that the viewer intuitively understands that information has been lost in a conversion to greyscale, but does not intuitively understand when looking at a colourised photo that the colours might not be right. That is, the greyscale is regarded as a known-incorrect record of reality, whereas the colourised photo may be regarded improperly as a correct record of reality.