Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just came back from a 4 day trip to Montreal. What a great city! While there I took in the newly opened Cartier-Bresson show at the Musee de Beaux-Arts. All I can say is WOW. There where a number of 16x20" and LARGER prints of his most famous images shot in the 30's. With all the talk in this list of lines per mm and which 50 summicron is best I think it is a lot of wasted time that could be better spent actually using the lenses we already own. Bresson's early pictures where taken with early uncoated lenses that are quite inferior by todays standards. The image quality is outstanding and the images speak for themselves. Also at the show are a large number of his drawings and paintings he's done in the last 20 years as well as a print of the last photograph he ever took. It's up for a couple of month's