Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Why street photos?
From: "Jean-Claude Berger" <jcberger@jcberger.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:19:26 +0200

Doing something "à la sauvette" means doing something rapidly without being
noticed. If I remember well, the Decisive moment is the title of (or a
expression in) an article HCB wrote during the 60's about photography.

All the best,

- --
Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com)
Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE)
Lyon, France
http://www.jcberger.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tim
> Atherton
> Sent: Wednesday 22 September 1999 01:32
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Why street photos?
>
>
> Okay - who speaks good French?
>
> "Images a la sauvette" (couldn't get an accent on the a) - published in
> English as The Decisive Moment.
>
> Tim A
>