[Leica] Erwin Blumenfeld in the NYer - Mark

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

In person on DVD - The Impassioned Eye:
http://www.amazon.com/Henri-Cartier-Bresson-The-Impassioned-Eye/dp/B000CGX7G6

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> "Dandy" though is also not much of a compliment to foist upon ones self.
> But a hop, skip and jump from Dandy is the whole idea of "Gentleman
> photographer" (or lady equivalent). And that kind of thing is certainly
> part
> of Leica "Culture". Leica lifestyle.
>
> Righty now I am reading a small book I've had for a few years its small and
> hard cover and fits in my side bag with my camera. Its called:
> The Mind's Eye
> Writings on Photography and Photographers
> Photographs and essays by Henri Cartier-Bresson
>
> http://aperture.org/shop/books/henri-cartier-bresson-the-minds-eye-book#sth
> ash.Y6T40aFy.dpuf
> http://tinyurl.com/kqku57e
>
> Going to finally find out what this guy thinks. YouTube ing him is
> frustrating for a guy who does not speak French all that well. English
> either!
>
> He actually in the capture I'm on now actually used the term "Decisive
> moment" to describe what you'd want when doing a portrait.
> Previously in the many chapters before he never once used the term. And
> this
> didn't surprise me. The fact that he just now as I'm reading did use the
> term did surprise me.  I almost think its in deferent to his publisher who
> came up with the term to title the English Language version of his book and
> the fact that he is so closely associated with the term.
>
>
>
> On 9/18/14 6:20 AM, "Philippe Amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:
>
> > Dilettante is not far from Dandy - HCB could afford that I think - and
> > an amateur because he loved his craft and didn't actually need the
> > cash either.
> >
> > As a native speaker, I would use both terms as HCB did.
> >
> > Amities
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> > Le 18 sept. 14 à 02:16, Mark Rabiner a écrit :
> >
> >> Also HCB Henri Cartier-Bresson who I'm reading now and Alfred
> >> Stieglitz also
> >> held up this "amateur"  term as an ideal instead of the opposite.
> >> Also the related term " dilettante" is used as a compliment instead
> >> of the
> >> opposite by these guys (wh0 may have never met) and their
> >> followers.  It
> >> gets confusing. Part of it may be that these major arbiters of
> >> taste, style
> >> and technique were born into so much money that they could piss off
> >> anybody
> >> they wanted to and still pay the rent at the end of the month. They
> >> just
> >> didn't need your business. They just didn't have to care.!!
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/16/14 6:29 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks, Phil  I like his quote:
> >>
> >> "I was an amateur‹I am an amateur‹and I
> >>> intend to stay an amateur. To me an
> >> amateur photographer is one who is in love
> >>> with taking pictures, a free
> >> soul who can photograph what he likes and who
> >>> likes what he photographs. By
> >> that definition I am an amateur, so that is the
> >>> definition that I accept."
> >>
> >> Tina
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Phil Swango
> >>> <pswango at att.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I saw this on Twitter and took a look.  Great
> >>> fashion work IMO.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/erwin-blumenfelds-studio
> >>>
> >>> You
> >>> may have to be a subscriber to view but I'm not sure about that.
> >>>
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