[Leica] HCB didn't crop, mostly...

[tripspud <tripspud@transbay.net>]

Hi!

      From this webpage of a review by John Banville, 'Secret Geometry'
of HCB's "The Man, the Image and the World"
the entire artcle is here:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16413

he states:

And one cannot leave it alone. One wants, one tries, to frame the precise
question that will provoke the revealing answer. It is
impossible. Cartier-Bresson has always been fascinated by the East—his first
wife, Ratna Mohini, was Javanese—and in the
face of all one's efforts to elicit from him a solution to the riddle of his
abandonment of photography he maintains an attitude of
merry serenity worthy of a Zen master. Which is what he is, really. The
"decisive moment" is everything, the moment at which
the artist catches the world in flagrante, unaware of how much it is revealing
of itself. It is an extraordinary fact that
Cartier-Bresson's photographs come to us as they were taken: no darkroom magic
has been performed. He does not even
crop his pictures and refuses to allow others to do so. This is a truly
miraculous eye.

      Well, I recall seeing the original negative of his shot in the '30s of
the guy leaping
the puddle and it's way cropped using about a third of the negative.  Maybe he
decided
not to crop later.

Cheers,

Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripspud@transbay.net



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