Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 10 May 1996, Laurent Saminadayar wrote: > Hi there! > Maybe I can answer some questions about HCB' printings. Actually, I >Work with the same printer as HCB, called George Fevre, from Pictorial >Service. This man, who is now 65 or 70 years old, worked also a lot for >Robert Doisneau, Joseph Koudelka, Marc Riboud, Gisele Freund and so on. >He is, I believe, one of the best printer in the world. If you are >interesting in, I can give you some information on George's (and HCB's) >philosophy of printing. I don't think Gassman would agree to answer any >question, for George told me He is a strange guy; and you know, he is now >the boss of a 300 people lab! > Send me a mail if I can help in any way. And sorry for my english! > Laurent SAMINADAYAR 1) Now that is an interesting offer! 2) There is certainly no need to apologise for your english: your postings have always been easy to follow. 3) I would be curious to find out at least in a general way what kind of materials - developers, films and papers - HCB/Gassman use and used and, perhaps more importantly, what philosophy guided their work. They seem to have been going for a very rich range of middle greys rather than lots of well-differentiated highlights. I would be curious to know if that is true and if so, if they developed any ways that they thought produced that effect particularly well. 4) I certainly don't expect you to go out of your way to find that out, or to annoy anyone. I am simply curious to know a little more about what kind of dark-room philosophy guided their practice. Gary Toop