Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lluis Ripoll OFFERED: Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Impassioned Eye(2003), een film van Heinz Butler "Dear Ted, buenos dias querido amigo! Has Leica any rough idea about your 380,000 images 99,99% with a Leica? I hope Leica gives you an special edition Leica MM "Dr. Ted Grant" and you come with it to Barcelona to the big meeting!<<<<<<< Dear Lluis, buenos dias querido amigo! No Luis, Leica don't do that for unknown photographers to them. Although they surely know who I am been there a few times while on assignments in Europe! Nor regardless of how many photographs your government's National Archives' and National Art Gallery have in their photographic collections. Even the largest in the history of your country? Or books you've had published and acclaimed by many many reviewers and subjects as the subject of the books. Nor my years of lecturing to professional photographer associations, schools and camera clubs all over the country. And at each, espousing the greatness of the Leica camera never ended simply because that's the equipment that allowed me to become the very fortunate lucky photojournalist I am! Even when you are the Lead Speaker for 16 years in Cape Cod for the Leica International Seminar! Where my lectures drew such demand each year until people had to be turned away because there wasn't teaching room for more than a 90 bodies. Oh they do give them to German's, American's, sport heros, Hip Hop so called singers! And free cameras to movie stars because they're movie stars! Give them to trust worthy hard working published international photographers for over half a century because the camera is the best tool on the market in carrying out thousands of assignments for many publications or books? Nope! Got a used slide projector one time when Leica closed the LEICA CANADA opertion in Toronto. But only because one of the senior people told the staff person I had a projector on loan and it should be returned! It was already a loaner that had the hell beat out of it shipped all over the country as a sample. But the VIP was convinced they should let me keep it as I was such a loyal and trustworthy Leica user. Besides it was really in junk condition and they'd only scrap it if I returned it! So that was my one big free reward after 60 years of "ALWAYS BUYING ALL MY LEICA GEAR!" A free MM???? Whatever you do, do not hold your breathe my friend it ain't going to happen!! cheers, Dr. ted Cheers Lluis El 14/01/2013, a las 00:55, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > AW gee whiz here we go again! :-) > That old guy HCB stealing my DVD thunder . :-) > > Hell he's dead so you can't ask him live questions and receive live life > responses!! :-) I can do that! :-) Buy mine! > > Here I am with an hour long BRAVO TV DVD produced by a North American TV > network simply because they thought I took some interesting photos, > travelled the world doing so and having a personal collection of edited > images in the National Archives of Canada of 280,000 images. Along with > another 100,000 in the National Gallery of Canada. 380,000, a lot of > clicks, 99% Leicas! > > It's the largest collection of photography by a single photographer in the > history of Canada! Seems cool to me, but I never thought about the numbers > until the TV program was aired. :-) Dang that sure is a pile of "Happy > Snapping!" But just think about all the fun and film I had and used! :-) > > Many of you have the DVD already with very favorable positive comments. > Thank you > > Anyway if yer interested? e-me on Friday sale day. Thank you. > > Canadian prices obviously different to HCB's. $40.oo plus shipping. > > It's an hour long live person documentary. Oh yeah along with interesting > photos and a special edition of a major selection of images as a separate > slide show! An honour winning production ! :-) > Stories and interviews not bad either. ;-) Got get a little plug in here. > :-) See you Friday > > cheers, > Dr. ted > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Cheyne" > <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> > To: <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:06 AM > Subject: [Leica] FS: DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Impassioned Eye > (2003),een film van Heinz Butler > > > This DVD has interviews with HCB and others, is 72 mins long, and the > subtitles are Dutch and French. Some of the speaking is in English, > but the majority is not. > > Snippet from NYT review: > > "Taking pictures means holding your breath with all your faculties > concentrated on capturing a fleeting reality," declares the pioneering > photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson near the end of Heinz Butler's > austere documentary portrait. In this small but stately film, > completed a year before the pioneering photojournalist Henri Cartier- > Bresson's death at 95 in August 2004, he slowly leafs through volumes > of his black-and-white photographs, shows some of his later drawings > and muses on his art to the severe, prickly strains of Bach piano > music. Even when viewed secondhand in a movie, these photographs are > something to see. Their formal elegance is balanced by an intense, > pulsing humanity. The documentary, which subscribes to the Great Man > school of reverential portraiture, is not a biography but an interview > (in French) conceived as a master class on art appreciation, with > guest commentators augmenting Cartier-Bresson's own sparsely chosen > words. ? Stephen Holden > > Including shipping, item is going for US$18 to my paypal account. > > All the best, > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > 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