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Re:Shirley Cards by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:50AM (#29225199)
The color was not just inaccurate for black skin tones, but for everything, though. So it seems likely it was a technical limitation, not racism. At first there was no color film at all, only black and white photography. People seem to take color film for granted but it was a genuine technical invention.
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Re:Shirley Cards by user-the-name on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:41AM (#29226280)
There is no such thing as accurate colours when you create a picture on paper. It is simply not possible.

What you are doing is making tradeoffs of what looks good and what doesn't. And the tradeoff that was made was that white skin needed to look good and black skin didn't matter.

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Re:Shirley Cards by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:05AM (#29226423)
Isn't the issue rather with the background that is woo white (at least in the sample photographs of the article)? How do you even make black skin look bad?
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