Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vince - thanks for your insights. ernie On Apr 17, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Vince Passaro wrote: > Scheldahl is a particular reviewer, a very good one, but he favors passion > and what you might call psychological bloodletting over, say, a near > perfect > mimetic and compositional skill. HCB took reality and revealed its deepest > REALITY -- while also revealing -- and indeed BY also revealing -- its > hidden forms. He comes off, undeniably, as cool and distant from what he > "composes" -- as opposed, say, to Eugene Smith, whose passionate engagement > speaks loudly in his photographs. So Schjeldahl is right in a way, except > in his personal sense that such a vision as HCB's "numbs" the heart. I > think > for many of us the formal beauty that he discovers and reveals in a moment, > a scene, an image of reality breaks the heart wide open, in the way, say, > that the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' could quite literally feel divine > creative reality in a mont in nature, seeing a falcon or a dawn -- "The > world is charged with the grandeur of God! It will flame out--" etc. > > Vince > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Charcot <charcot at comcast.net> wrote: > >> ?He traveled all over the goddamned world, and you never felt that he was >> moved by something that was happening other than the beauty of it, or just >> the composition.? The problem of Cartier-Bresson?s art is the conjunction >> of >> aesthetic classicism and journalistic protocol: timeless truth and >> breaking >> news. He rendered a world that, set forth at MOMA by the museum?s chief >> curator of photography, Peter Galassi, richly satisfies the eye and the >> mind, while numbing the heart. >> >> Read more: >> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2010/04/19/100419craw_artworld_schjeldahl#ixzz0lN2EKWEc >> >> Sorry folks I don't get it - how does the reviewer draw all this from HCB >> . >> I for one am planning on spending $ to go to one of the hosting cities! >> >> ernie >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information