Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Those of you out there who are fond of Henri Cartier-Bresson's >work might be interested to have a look at the collection of his >photographs of Paris, published in 1994 as "A Propos de Paris" by the >Bullfinch Press of Little, Brown and Company. A number of the prints have >never been published before and, to my eye, most of them have a lovely >tonal scale. I would love to have seen the show from which these were >taken. In his acknoweldgements at the end, Cartier-Bresson thanks his >printer Jean Genoud of Lausanne, for "reproducing all of the subtleties >of tone". He concludes by acknowledging "the Leica", his "constant >travelling companion", without which "these images would have remained >buried in an unreliable memory". > >Happy viewing >Gary Toop I second the recommendation. I've had this book out of the library for a while now, and the more I look through it the more I am aware of his eye for composition as apart from his eye for the decisive moment. -Charlie Charles E. Dunlap Earth Sciences Dept. University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064