If there’s racial bias in photography, then why isn’t it called “White and Black Film”? The star always gets the lead billing.
Clearly photography needs to be limited to two levels of illumination.
When I was a kid, there was a black family down the street that was so racist that they sold their black & white tv and bought a colored one...
Well, sure. That's the best explanation for pretty much everything. Do you know why the telephone company calls their residential phone book the "White Pages"? To make white people feel superior!
And do you know why Teddy Roosevelt's navy was called the "Great White Fleet"? To make white people feel superior!
I could go on and on. It's so easy to use silly garbage to make Americans hate each other.
This is crazy.
Cameras have a white balance because daylight is inherently “white”.
The white balance allows adjustments for proper color rendition under different light sources/temperatures, such as incandescent, fluorescent, etc.
This has to be the worst looking-for-offense scheme I’ve ever seen.
Blame Newton and Goethe!
I knew it! Ansel Adams was a Wascist!
I had a photography book years ago, probably published by Kodak, that dealt with photographing black people. And what it said was: There is nothing special you need to know about photographing black people. It is exactly the same as photographing white people.
There was so much stupid in that article that it makes my head hurt.
Just when you thought N.utty P.rogressive R.acists can't get any more ludicrous...
The only bias revealed here is in the fact that somehow this article got published without presenting any facts whatsoever, while being written at a 2nd grade level.
5 minutes I’ll never get back.
See, NPR is on to it...same reason we drive over black asphalt every day.
Kooks.
Were black inventors prevented from developing film technology to favor advances beneficial to blacks? If not, why the wringing of hands by this writer?
Its true. The dark skin just swallows up the light. You see the white faces no prob, but the black faces are just smears. The photographer will have to really work to get some contrast.
It sucks, but I think it is just one of those things you gotta accept. For many black people, incidents like this are a constant reminder of their ‘inferiority’.
This has to be one of the most stupid articles I have ever read. (My bad for even clicking on it, since I saw right away that it was NPR). Todays cameras often get skin color wrong, from ANY skin. It can be lighting, shadowing, haze, and any number of reasons. That’s why any number of free photo processing software tools have color correction. If someone doesn’t like it, they can FIX IT. Crying and whining about racist cameras is unbecomming.
stupid self serving article
Everything in the modern world is “racist” because when whites created it, they did so for themselves.
Those who object to the way it turned out, in photography, or otherwise, are perfectly free to create their own “non-racist” technologies. If they are better, they will win out in the market place.
Go for it.