Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank YOU!!!! One mystery solved! On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>wrote: > Mark - I remember seeing the contact sheet with multiple jumps, too, but > whether it was in connection with the NYLUG meting or elsewhere, I can't > remember at the moment. > > Dick > > > > On Jun 17, 2012, at 3:51, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > I was afraid of that. I went flipping though the book when I was in > > Portland last month and I never found the page. The show we saw in NY > though > > was not that show you are mentioning. It was the Scrapbook show. Early > work. > > It could be I dreamt the contact sheet of puddle jumping but I was not > aware > > I was that delusional. Possible though. The place I would have seen it > > would have been in the International Center of Photography five years > ago. > > Perhaps someone who was with me from the NYLUG can corroborate it. > > I certainly can not find it in numerous searches on Bing and Google > contacts > > sheet mode searches. > > Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 > > JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 > > http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/henri-cartier-bressons-scrapbook > > > > - - from my iRabs. > > Mark Rabiner > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > > > > >> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:37:02 -0700 > >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >> Subject: [Leica] "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: How about this one? > >> > >> Mark, I checked my copy of "Celebrating the Negative," and the negative > >> shown is just that single frame, cut off, without sprocket holes on on > edge > >> even (Henri "ate them," so he said). > >> > >> No there is no contact sheet of the sequence. Unfortunately, it's not > >> included in the Magnum book "Contact Sheet" either. > >> > >> I went to the "Modern Century" show of HCB's photos a few years ago in > >> SFMOMA and there's no such contact sheet :-( > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> In the contact sheet in the book "Celebrating the Negative" by > >>> John Loengard you can see he is caught in the air jumping over the same > >>> puddle from the same spot at least 27 times. > >>> Some of us NY LUG guys also saw and discused that contact sheet when > it was > >>> displayed in the early HCB show at the ICP in new York a few years ago: > >>> Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 > >>> JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 > >>> > >>> Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare better known as: > >>> The Puddle Jumper > >>> > >>> This photo findable now on the internet is mainly used as an example > for > >>> the > >>> other myth. That HCB (or other Magnum shooters) never cropped. This > photo > >>> is > >>> cropped by quite a bit. As are a handful of others of his. > >>> They are saying in many examples I find on the internet that he is > >>> shooting > >>> through a fence which reinforces the whole "decisive moment" myth; > Waiting > >>> patiently some magic moment to happen from a hole in a fence clicking > once > >>> and going home. > >>> But the guy jumps from the same place over the same puddle strip after > >>> strip. > >>> And there was no reason for HCB to not act like any other magazine > >>> photographer of the time and perhaps a bit less so, now.. To be heavily > >>> involved with what he was shooting. > >>> Of course its always depended on the exact kind of thing you're > shooting. > >>> Baby shoes and so on. Hiring models to kiss in front of crowds of > leering > >>> men... > >>> > >>> - - from my iRabs. > >>> Mark Rabiner > >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > >>> > >>> > >>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:52:29 -0700 > >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] How about this one? > >>>> > >>>> In the "Impassionated Eye" video, HCB explicitly said the same thing > you > >>>> did, so I think the "asking the guy jumping multiple times" is a myth. > >>>> > >>>> and I just love this video > >>>> http://vimeo.com/33376713 > >>>> > >>>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> ... > >>>>> Finally, I won't put money on this - but I don't think HCB had the > guy > >>> do > >>>>> anything. He was shooting through a hole in a fence, and shot a > series > >>> of > >>>>> people as they tried to get across the puddle. The best of the > images he > >>>>> got was of the famous jumper. At least I believe that's correct. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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 > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>