RE: [Leica] Keepers [was: David Bailey...]

[BOB KRAMER <BobKramer@COOPERCARRY.com>]

B.D., where did you hear such a ridiculous story as to HCB's methodology?
Sipping on lattes until the decisive moment slaps him in the face, indeed!
LOL!  Did you or anyone else ever really believe such a thing?  Honestly,
that is a new one to me.  Everything I have ever heard has him dancing
around firing off shots like a wild man when he sees something that strikes
his eye, just like Winogrand, Friedlander, and everyone else trying to do
quality street photography.

Two comments:

1.  Don't believe every urban legend you hear.

2.  In a way, I wish HCB had never coined the phrase "decisive moment".  It
really doesn't mean anything at all other than you took a good well timed
photo with intrinsic artistic value.  This has absolutely nothing to do with
the actual number of frames that were exposed, and I don't believe HCB ever
said otherwise.  The phrase has become bastardized to mean many things I
seriously doubt HCB ever intended it to mean.  Everything to everybody has
come to be a decisive moment.  It has become too easy, and is therefor
meaningless.

Cheers,
BK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Keepers [was: David Bailey...]
> 
> Yes, Bob - I do have a point. The Legend of HCB and the 
> Decisive Moment has
> him either strolling along, or sipping his cafe at a cafe, 
> spotting the
> image of all images, whipping his IIIg to his eye, clicking, 
> and resuming
> his watching.
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