Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I also like the Lartigue shot of the lady leaping down the stairs. Jacques Henri Lartigue, 40, Rue de Cortambert But my stair leaping days are over. Tomorrow I get an MRI of my left knee. No reason it seemed like a good idea at the time. http://blipoint.com/blog/2010/06/un-mundo-flotante-fotografias-de-jacques-he nri-lartigue-1894-1986/jacques-henri-lartigue-mi-prima-bichonnade-40-rue-cor tambert-paris-1905-fotografia-de-j-h-lartigue-copy-ministere-de/ or http://tinyurl.com/7f5jnsd - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw at archiphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:02:16 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: How about this one? > > Maybe we could have a LUG event. You let us know when you find a good > puddle > with jump-off point, and we could come and watch you try various speeds, > heights, distances and other body position. After, while you dry your > feet, we > could all work this thread over in a nice cafe! :-) > > Henning > > > > On 2012-06-18, at 11:42 AM, philippe.amard wrote: > >> Perhaps the guy in the photo DID want to get his feet wet, and kept >> trying to >> fall off the board - hence the unbelievable repeats and multiple stolen >> takes. With French people, you never know ... >> Phil the frog, down the ladder now. >> >> >> Le 18 juin 12 ? 20:10, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : >> >>> Its possible a "trick" to this shot is the fact that he had the camera >>> braced in a fence poking through it. Had he just stood there and shot it >>> I >>> can see it possibly lacking some of the magic it seems to have now. >>> I've been doing that kind of thing often as I do a lot of low light >>> shooting >>> looking for braces for my camera on the scene. I've been bracing my >>> camera >>> on all kinds of things. Vertical poles, horizontal barricades and doing >>> long >>> exposures with not short lenes and getting a different kind of result. >>> It's >>> hard to put your figure on why it would add a touch of magic to many >>> shots >>> but I do think it does. More so than walking into the scene with your >>> camera >>> on your tripod. >>> But being able to stop down on a night shot gives you something as few >>> are >>> going to do night shots with anything other than hand held technique. >>> Which >>> means pretty much they're shooting close to wide open. >>> >>> - - from my iRabs. >>> Mark Rabiner >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >>> >>> >>>> From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> >>>> Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:48:56 +0100 >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: How about this one? >>>> >>>> Funnily enough, I recall having seen the alleged contact sheet at an >>>> exhibition >>>> somewhen, but I remember not having been deeply convinced by its >>>> authenticity. >>>> That may of course be because I have been brought up on the "legend" of >>>> The >>>> Decisive Moment and that shot's place in it. >>>> >>>> On the other hand why would anyone fake it? >>>> >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> On 17/06/2012 08:51, Mark Rabiner 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> =========================================================== >>>> Dr Peter Dzwig >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> > > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information