Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/10

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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)
Date: Mon May 10 16:56:14 2004
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On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:35, Clive Moss wrote:
> Paul Hardy Carter said the following on 5/10/2004 5:39 PM:
> 
> > Without question the "jumper", it's actually called "Behind the Gare St Lazare",
>  > is one of the most miraculous pictures ever taken, and a vastly 
> better picture than the boy with the bottles.
>  > I've promised myself that next time I have ten grand to spare I'll 
> buy a print of it and spend two hours a night with a bottle of wine 
> looking at it.
> ...
> ArtChicago at Navy Pier had a print of the jumper this weekend. Not 
> worth ten grand to me. Did not look noticeably better than any of the 
> reproductions in a book. Use the ten grand to buy better wine :-)


If I remember correctly the jumper shot is heavily cropped.
HCB supposedly shot it through a crack in a fence.

Feli



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