Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feli di Giorgio Visual Effects Supervisor "Hostage" creocollective - feli@creocollective.com