[Leica] Re: HCB dies

[lowiemanuel at yahoo.ca (Emanuel Lowi)]

Summicron1@aol.com wrote:

> 
> miss him him?   Why?
> 
> It's not as if he came over for dinner every
> thurday, is it? And he hasn't 
> shot in years. Did he owe you money?
> 
> Of course not.
> 
> And anyway, if you miss a photographer as great as
> he when he dies, you miss 
> the whole point of his career, which was to preserve
> for the future his vision 
> of the world, his art, his meaning, his beliefs and
> dreams.
> 
> I have a book of his work downstairs and look at it
> every time I need 
> inspiration. May I suggest you do the same?
> 
> You will never miss him then. He is still there.
> 
> His era is far from dead, too. Why does everyone say
> that? What a stupid 
> concept.
> 
> Go take pictures. Look at life, look at people, quit
> worrying about which 
> lens you have that has 8 elements and was made in
> midland, and start worrying 
> where the damn thing is pointed. Quit looking at
> your lens and start looking at 
> light, at people, at situations, at composition. 
> 
> >From what I can gather, that's all HCB did.
 
While your tone rubs me somehow the wrong way, I
agree, essentially, with your message.

HC-B is with us forever. Especially within this group
that is the LUG, in our best moments there's a bit of
Cartier-Bresson in all of us each time our eyes spot
an instant we recognize as photographic. 

Even when this happens without our cameras ready, C-B
is there too, reproaching us.

So have a smile for immortal Henri. He's in a better
place than any of us now, slinking behind clouds to
snap the cherubs playing. The Big Boss is smiling too.

Emanuel Lowi
Montreal 

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