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Subject: [Leica] OT: Matisse and HCB
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:33:26 +0530
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On the whole, I think I prefer Matisse to HCB any day (as visual artists,
that is)
Cheers
Jayanand


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:51 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at 
sfr.fr>wrote:

> I thought of you Luggers as we went to a Matisse exhibition yesterday.
> On display were a series of HCB original gelatin prints of the painter
> made by HCB, a gift by the photog to the museum - the famous doves in 
> Vence.
> And the original painting by Matisse that served as a cover and case
> illustration for one of HCB's book some of you may have heard of, namely 'A
> la Sauvette', which was later (ill) translated into 'The decisive Moment'.
> I loved the fact that a photo book didn't use a photo for its cover and
> resorted to another form of Art as a shrine.
> All wonderful, and a very precious souvenir - no photos allowed there, I'm
> sorry.
> I wanted to share the thoughts about this artistic interaction though.
>
> The cover
> http://tinyurl.com/cq3b2dk
>
> Amiti?s
> Philippe
>
>
> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to
> the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince.
>
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