[Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper FWIW

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

Attending the MOMA massive HCB retrospective, I was struck by two things - 
besides HCB's unarguable amazing talent:
First was how flat-out lousy most of the early prints are. Flat, gray, just 
plain bad. And second is how many of the images were 'good,' but wouldn't be 
in the MOMA or anywhere else if they hadn't been made by HCB. Many were, of 
course, sublime. But many others could easily have been made by any number 
of solid pre-and-post-war photographers. Which is not to say they were bad, 
but that they sure weren't great.
Typed with big fingers on tiny keys

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From: "Bill Lawlor" <wvl at comcast.net>
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:41:30 
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Subject: [Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper FWIW

In the Spring of 1999 I attended a gallery show of HCB prints, The 
Europeans, at Louisiana, near Copenhagen. A talk was given (in English) by 
some academic expert on HCB. He discussed the Puddle Jumper at some length 
and put up a slide of "the negative". I was struck by the fact that the 
negative was only perforated on one side and asked the speaker about it. He 
said it was a copy negative which I took to mean a copy of the original 
negative. This discussion suggests to me that might have been a copy of a 
print.

BTW, I was surprised to see that a number of the pre-WWII prints were out of 
focus.

Bill Lawlor 


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