[Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

His first show in NY he was marked as "deceased"
They thought he was dead. Was a German prisoner of war; he escaped from them
several times.
As far as I go he was great before he even started.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:44:31 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper
> 
> As Philippe discovered in the Christes' lot notes quoted in your email, HCB
> had adopted his full frame only practice prior to printing La Gare with
> only 2 exceptions("une des deux seules images"): The La Gare photo itself
> and another of Cardinal Pacelli. There's no need to speculate about what he
> may have done or why since it is discussed openly.
> 
> The note goes on to explain that the puddle frame was largely ignored by
> him (shot several years earlier) until he re-evaluated his work for his
> solo MoMA show which opened in Feb, 1947 (my birth month and year),
> although the scrap book version dates from the previous year. I thought it
> was a known fact that the MoMA show marked its first public appearance, so
> I was surprised to read it's only "l'un des premiers tirages de cette
> photographie," ie there are other prints extant
> 
> My French is a little rough, Philippe may offer corrections.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
>> I do think they 're talking about two different versions of the same neg
>> which had been printed. And by the way was likely he himself at this point
>> printed it. First he printed it more or less full frame which had the
> blurry
>> fence in it at the left end of the image. They he moved the enlarger up
> and
>> was able to crop out the blurry fence and turn it into a vertical instead
> of
>> horizontal image.
>> 
>> This thing of an image shot vertical and ending up as a horizontal is a
>> thing which does happen a lot to photographers working in the 20th century
>> in 35mm. If not by them then by a picture editor.
>> 
>> And by the way despite what a thing said yesterday on HCB's mode or
> working
>> printing full frame black border has never stopped a photo editor from
>> cropping a picture. Many just take the face out no mater who or what is
>> going on. They put their own black border on later if they feel like it.
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:04:25 +0200
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper
>>> 
>>> Lot Notes
>>> Cette photographie est une des deux seules images (l'autre ?tant celle
>>> du Cardinal Pacelli) qu'Henri Cartier-Bresson a, d?s la prise de vue,
>>> d?cid? de recadrer; il la prend l'objectif bloqu? par une palissade
>>> qu'il a imm?diatement supprim?e au premier tirage. Cette photographie
>>> fut tir?e pour la premi?re fois en 1946 par Henri Cartier-Bresson afin
>>> de pr?parer son exposition organis?e en f?vrier 1947 au MoMA de New
>>> York. Le tirage pr?sent? ici a ?t? r?alis? ? New York en 1946; c'est,
>>> avec celui du Scrapbook, l'un des premiers tirages de cette
>>> photographie.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/LotDetailsPrintable.aspx?intObjectID=549419
>> 
>> 4
> 
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