Black and White Photography Is Fraudulent Nostalgia

Doug Vidlas
The Bad Influence
Published in
3 min readOct 17, 2019

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Even those of us who are color blind know better.

Photo by Zoey Tian on Unsplash (modified)

Sorry, but I don’t experience life in black and white. Do you?

To get the argument rolling, here’s one of the most preposterous quotes ever written:

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you

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Doug Vidlas
The Bad Influence

Word slinger and sometimes poet. Ex stand-up. Polyglot. Technologist. Non-conformist who experiments a lot.