Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 9 May 1996, Edi Weitz wrote: > Gary, > I've been trying to collect everything I could find about HCB in the >last three years or so. Unfortunately, in those interviews I found until >today he was only talking about Zen or his Volkswagen Golf or similar >things... :) > > It seems that he has refused to talk about technical things or about >photography at all in the last years. > > If you still know where you've read those interviews with him talking >about films etc. could you please tell me the sources? Maybe I can find a >library where I can read or xerox-copy them. > Thanks, Edi I can recall 2 sources at the moment where I think that there was at least some discussion, but my memory is vague. I believe that Popular Photography did either and interview or a piece which included bits of an interview with HCB where he talked briefly about his technique. I may have a copy of the article at home and if so, I will e-mail you some more information about it later. I also remember reading one of the (many) volumes in the Time-Life series on photography in which there is a discussion of HCBs work - it may have been one on Great Photographers, but I am not sure, and again, a short discussion of his techinical practice at the time of writing. There is a select biliography of writing on and interviews with HCB in the back of the Aperture volume on his work and I believe that they note interviews in both Popular Photography and Modern Photography. If you don't have access to the Aperture volume, I might be able to arrange to send you a photocopy of the bibliography. Perhaps Ed Meyers can tell us whether he remembers any interviews with HCB in Pop and Modern Photography over the periods when he worked there. Hope this helps Gary Toop