“My idea was to see if I could illustrate a concept of (Harvard philosopher and cinema scholar) Stanley Cavell’s about color having a sense of presentness in time and black-and-white having a sense of nostalgia,” Baltz explains. “Black-and-white is two seconds ago and color is now . . . . You accept the black-and-white as reality and the color seems totally fake.”

— lewis baltz, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-29-ca-372-story.html