Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------2FD17CE7ED777845E447DCDA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.microserve.net id KAA09482 Jeffrey Hausner wrote: >=20 > > >HCB influenced his subjects to behave in > > > a way that suited his imaging purposes. He did it subtle, bu= t he > > did > > >it anyway. If you look carefully at some > > > of his pictures, you have to admit that they are on the brin= k 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 w= ork. > > 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 tha= t 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 shoe= s, > sole to sole, formed a heart shape. The picture was, I believe, taken > during his first trip to Mexico. >=20 > Buzz Hausner The photo is shown in "Mexican Notebooks". I believe in the Museum of Modern Art's book on HCB there is a reference to this being one of the few posed photos he did. There are a couple others that I can't all remember although I think the one of his friend Andr=E9 Pieyre de Mandiargues smoking a cigarette in front of a sign in Italy may also be posed. Carl Socolow - --------------2FD17CE7ED777845E447DCDA Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="csocolow.vcf" Content-Description: Card for csocolow Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="csocolow.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin:vcard n:Socolow;Carl x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Socolow Photography adr:;;;Camp Hill;PA;17011;USA version:2.1 email;internet:csocolow@microserve.net note:ICQ 9562608 fn:Carl Socolow end:vcard - --------------2FD17CE7ED777845E447DCDA--