[Leica] HCB exhibit and the New Yorker Review

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> I had read the New Yorker review earlier and and discussed it with an 
> artist
> friend.  I like Schjeldahl and read him regularly but I was a little put 
> off
> by the dismissive tone of the criticism here.  I also love Robert Frank but
> I don't think his is the only attitude that counts.  HCB was a formal
> analyst and organizer, like Poussin and Cezanne before him, and this gave
> him that sense of Apollonian detachment that Schjeldahl finds off-putting.
>  I like it, myself, so to each his own.  I also wish Schjeldahl had given
> more attention to HCB's early years as a surrealist -- probably his best
> work, and the work that brought him first recognition when Julien Levy
> showed his works alongside artists like Dali and Ernst.
> 
> BTW, I liked Vince's characterization of Frank as a "beat poet with a
> camera."
> 
> 
> Phil Swango
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> 
I'd love to see HCB's early years as a surrealist anywhere.

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