Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> There's a point here, and I'm getting to it. <vbg> There was one HCB, the > famous image of the French boy with the wine bottles, huge grin on his > face. Truly amazing!! I just read an article forwarded to me by a friend. It is the New York Review of Books review on the new book for HCB. The interviewer, John Banville, mentioned this photo during the interview, and here is the response: "I make the mistake of mentioning one of his more well-known pictures-of a little boy on the rue Mouffetard proudly carrying two bottles of wine-and he cries out as if in pain. "Terrible! Terrible! I should destroy the negative!" " Here's the full story link: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16413 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html