Episode 114: Bryan Jones on Why Color Doesn't Exist
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The Semiotics of Black and White Pictures
For a long time, for instance, and actually, this is even true in nature. There isn't a whole lot of blue out right? Ah, and that's, that's reflected in the pigments that we see. And if you go back in time, even even back to the roman or greek era, in a couple of thousand years ago, there was very little blue. In fact, blue was derived from certain ams, a se snail organismsn and other organisms,. It was very rare, and so it was very precious. I think it was only in the late seventies that you had newspapers in the united states having color photos. So all of my younger
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