[Leica] A Tribute to R. Doisneau

[Lluis Ripoll]

I suppose you have read “The mind’s eye”, as far as I know HCB has never used the expression “The decisive moment”, his first book published in France was the tittle “Images à la sauvette” with the famous cover by Matisse.

The American editor was searching an attractive tittle for the English edition, and was inspired by the quote by the Cardinal de Retz 

"There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment”

In his book HCB says many things as the one I reproduce bellow, but if I remember well, never, never “The decisive moment”,  this was a succesful marketing name! 

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression”

LLuis


> El 21 set 2018, a les 12:29, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
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> Objection Sir ;-)
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> HCB did both - geometry (probably first, due to his early training, and later passion for painting), and people.
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> BTW : The decisive moment is just a later translation, or rather adaptation-reconstruction of the original title of the book. 
> The French title told another story, and it was certainly not explicit about either decisive, nor moment… which leaves more room for those two essential facets, framing and behavior.
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> Amities
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> Philippe
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>> Le 21 sept. 2018 à 10:57, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> a écrit :
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>> but then the decisive moment doesn't allow for precise placement,
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