Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Same here. Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jun 17, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Richard Taylor 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