Re: [Leica] Magnum at the Barbican

["Robert Shaw" <crown4@worldnet.att.net>]

Any chance this exhibit might pass through ICP in New York??
Rob
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Subject: [Leica] Magnum at the Barbican


> I had the great pleasure yesterday of spending a couple of hours looking
at
> the new Magnum exhibition at the Barbican centre in London with Neil
Miller,
> a fellow LUGer from Phoenix, Arizona.   He was over here on holiday with
his
> wife, who he had lost for the morning.   Two friends, including an
American
> photographer, now resident in London, Richard Bram (who uses M4's and 6's)
> joined us, so it was a good party.
>
> What an interesting show the Magnum show is!   Occupying two floors of one
of
> London's major exhibition centres, it took some considerable time to view.
> And all the great Magnum people were represented.   This is a must for
anyone
> travelling to London in the winter/spring.
>
> And there were a number of major surprises, the first of which was that
none
> of the prints were behind glass, and with all the monochrome being printed
on
> matt paper, the prints looked flat at first, but with exquisite detail.
> Surprisingly, the colour was either high gloss (as in Ilfachrome prints)
or
> inkjet prints.   The inkjets stood out because of their compressed tonal
> range which gave them a 'poster print' quality which really suited much of
> the work.
>
> The most welcome surprise was the new work by H.C-B, showing very recent
> environmental portraits as in Tete a Tete, and taken as recently as 1997 -
> 1999.   At 90 this maestro has certainly not lost his eye!   In my
opinion,
> he was a fresh as ever.
>
>
>
> Gerry
> Gerry Walden (UK)
>