Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 9 May 1996, Gary J Toop wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 May 1996, Edi Weitz wrote: > > > Gary, > > > I've been trying to collect everything I could find about HCB in the > >last three years or so. Unfortunately, in those interviews I found until > >today he was only talking about Zen or his Volkswagen Golf or similar > >things... :) > > > > It seems that he has refused to talk about technical things or about > >photography at all in the last years. > > > > If you still know where you've read those interviews with him talking > >about films etc. could you please tell me the sources? Maybe I can find a > >library where I can read or xerox-copy them. > > Thanks, Edi > > I can recall 2 sources at the moment where I think that there was > at least some discussion, but my memory is vague. I believe that Popular > Photography did either and interview or a piece which included bits of an > interview with HCB where he talked briefly about his technique. I may > have a copy of the article at home and if so, I will e-mail you some more > information about it later. > I also remember reading one of the (many) volumes in the Time-Life > series on photography in which there is a discussion of HCBs work - it > may have been one on Great Photographers, but I am not sure, and again, a > short discussion of his techinical practice at the time of writing. > > There is a select biliography of writing on and interviews with > HCB in the back of the Aperture volume on his work and I believe that > they note interviews in both Popular Photography and Modern Photography. > If you don't have access to the Aperture volume, I might be able to > arrange to send you a photocopy of the bibliography. > Perhaps Ed Meyers can tell us whether he remembers any interviews > with HCB in Pop and Modern Photography over the periods when he worked > there. > > Hope this helps > Gary Toop > I seem to remember that there was a story in the 60s (before I arrived at Pop), perhaps by John Durniak, about HCB. I'll ask Bob Schwalberg when I have lunch with him tomorrow. He has written about HCB, as he is a friend of HCB. There may have been a story in Camera Arts also. Same publisher as Pop. Then it may have been in one of the many annuals published by the Pop people. Ed>