An interesting suggestion, Klaus -- William Mortensen thought so too. In
"Mortensen on the Negative" (& other places as well, no doubt) he says the
eye goes to light areas. He based his "system" of photography on
photographing for and printing an expanded range of midtones.
He also gave short shrift to heavy blacks and pure whites -- maintaining
rather that the eye will simply see the darkest tone in a photograph as
black & the lightest tone as white. Therefore, he argued, chasing after
super D-max is barking up the wrong tree. (That was 1939. Little did he
know.)
Judy