Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]** Proprietary ** Luggers: Received an unexpected bonus today. The Cartier-Bresson Exhibit opened unofficially a day early (scheduled for tomorrow) at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, F Street at Eighth, NW, in Washington, D.C. The museum is one block from my office, so over the lunch hour I quickly went through the 80 photographs, all portraits. I plan to go back for a longer viewing of parts of the exhibit. For some of you that are close to D.C., the museum symposium, "Henri Cartier-Bresson and Photography Today," is scheduled on Saturday, October 30 at 1300 hours to 1700 hours (2 to 5 p.m.) . That symposium will be at the National Portrait Gallery location (reservations: (202) 357-2920, ext. 4). As a part of the symposium, there will be a round table discussion with several Magnum photographers, including Bruce Davidson and Inge Morath. From the Smithsonian Museum program and curator's notes, Cartier-Bresson starting shooting with a Leica in 1932 and seems to have gained almost instant acclaim. There is a planned gallery tour with the museum curator of photographs on Thursday, November 18, 1999, at noon. Cartier-Bresson reportably will not be at the Washington Smithsonian exhibit at any time, as he does not travel by air. Best of Light, Bill Caldwell <sneeker@erols.com>