Color Me Happy (or not)

Here is a photo of 1/2 of the English post-punk band Wire in a spread for Mojo. I don't know why they took this grayed-out photo with terrible contrast and re-colored it with green, cyan, and magenta. Remember in the 1980s when there was that mercifully brief movement to colorize old black and white films? They always looked terrible, and that's what this reminds me of.

Now HERE is a photo of Siouxsie Sioux (another English contemporary of Wire) taken by Lynn Goldsmith in 1980. I love everything about this image, especially the repetition of hues. It was sheer luck that Goldsmith asked for the whole band, but only got Siouxsie: otherwise, we wouldn't have these RGB spectrum metal folding chairs to compliment and accent the subject's clothing, hair, and makeup. Nice!