Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >HCB influenced his subjects to behave in > > a way that suited his imaging purposes. He did it subtle, but he > did > >it anyway. If you look carefully at some > > of his pictures, you have to admit that they are on the brink of > being > >posed. > > That is totally false. There is no call for making such an accusation. He > has denied such action, and it calls into question his whole life's work. > Name one single picture that you say is posed, besides the portraits which > are often, but not always, legitimately posed. > I could be wrong about this, but I remember H.C.-B. writing that he posed the photograph of a man with his arms crossed over his bare chest juxtaposed next to a pair of high-heeled shoes in a cabinet, which shoes, sole to sole, formed a heart shape. The picture was, I believe, taken during his first trip to Mexico. Buzz Hausner