Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Cartier Bresson and the 6 exposures.
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 23:21:25 -0600

At 02:34 PM 12/1/97 +0100, you wrote:
>>That guy jumping across a puddle, he fell in 50 times before HCB reckoned
>>he'd got 6 frames of him exactly at the right point.
>
>
>Hmm, suddenly Mr HCB seems a lot more human. I never realized that some of
>his desicive moments were arranged. No wonder that I have not been able to
>capture any myself...

Are you kidding? HCB is a PAINTER! His pictures just LOOK like photos. 

You ask him some time. He will not say "I'm a photojournalist." Or "I'm a
photographer." Or even "I'm a painter." But he WILL say "I am a surrealist.

Now who but a painter would say that?

tic
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

When there's a will, I want to be in it.