RE: [Leica] Decisions, decisions

[Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>]

Friends,
I wish my computer wasn't playing up/forever crashing. I thought you'd have 
received my post on Cartier-Bresson's definition of 'Images a la Sauvette' 
but as I can't see it in either the 'sent' or 'delete' pile I'll pot it 
again:
In Beaumont Newhall's autobiography, 'Focus', Bullfinch Press 1993, he 
recalls,
	"In Paris we enjoyed visiting with Henri Cartier-Bresson again, after his 
exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.  His book The Decisive Moment had 
just come off the press.  The French edition of his beautiful collection of 
photographs, brilliantly reproduced in photogravure, is titled Images a la 
sauvette.  Henri explained that the phrase a la sauvette is slang and can 
hardly be translated.  Literally it means "to save oneself," and he gave 
the example of a street vendor selling his wares without a license to do so 
and who "beats it" when he sees a policeman, in order to "save himself' 
from arrest."

I hope that explains a little more 'from the horse's mouth' and might even 
encourage  afew to look out for the book, it's a great read.

Jem