[Leica] Best known photo ?

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Why don't we all go dada? Some photographic variant on ?criture automatique
for example.
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> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:10:09 -0400
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ?
> 
> Cartier-Bresson, for all the talk about his being a photojournalist, was
> not a photojournalist - he was an artist whose brush was the camera. The
> photo of the man jumping the puddle is just that - a photo of a man
> jumping  a puddle. It is not a news photo of the aftermath of a flood.
> It is what it is. And, btw, I would argue it is....surreal. :-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Tim Atherton
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:04 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ?
> 
> 
> 
>> IF it was faked - and based on the present evidence, I believe it was
>> real - but IF it was fake, then he indeed disguised it as something -
>> he disguised it as a photograph of a soldier who had just been shot,
>> dying in combat. Period.
>> 
> 
> interesting parallel discussion on another (photojournalist) list with
> this about the HCB/Puddle shot:
> 
>> So did Cartier Bresson.  You need to see the contact sheets. I've seen
> 
>> a contact sheet of a famous Cartier Bresson shot. A man jumping over a
> 
>> puddle, which would seem to be a good example of the 'decisive' moment
> 
>> but in fact the contact sheet shows 36 attempts at the shot with the
>> subject jumping over, repeatedly until the the shot was in the bag.
> 
> whatcha think?
> 
> (the poster assures me he saw the contact sheet...
> 
> tim
> 
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