Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob- BBC Television produced a wonderful documentary on HCB for his 90th birthday. The historic footage showed him dancing around the streets of New York taking photos. Eve Arnold talked about this in the program. For those that a critical of HCB, they should have been in London a few years ago during his 90th birthday. 4 exhibitions including the 'Tete a Tete' at the National Portrait Gallery which was quite full during my visit. One thing to think of is HCB used a Leica M with only a few lens, no flash,motordrives, or extremely wide lens. He used HP5, and had it printed one way- normal contrast. No over printing(Don McCullin Photos), extreme burning(SIEF PHOTO), or too much contrast. Pure photos! How can you not enjoy great images produced that way. Excuse while I go find my HCB collection! Kevin Argue St. Catharines, Ontario kargue@sympatico.ca - ---------- >From: BOB KRAMER <BobKramer@COOPERCARRY.com> >To: "'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: RE: [Leica] Keepers [was: David Bailey...] >Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2002, 5:22 PM > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] >> Subject: RE: [Leica] Keepers [was: David Bailey...] >> >> Interesting, isn't it, >> that he didn't coin the phrase "The Decisive MomentS," or >> "The Decisive Five >> Minutes," or the "Decisive Image." It's "THE decisive >> MOMENT." And it is a >> bit of a crock. > > Not a crock at all. Just a phrase that, to him, summed up what made his art > great. A frozen moment in time that couldn't swing one way or the other > without losing the essence of the image. He may have spent several moments > (seconds or minutes, whatever) working a potential image, but in the final > analysis, it is the ONE moment that works... that makes the ONE image a > great photograph. > > To me, it seems incredibly jaded to call that "decisive moment" label HCB > chose to describe his art "a bit of a crock". Unless of course you can > point to some writings of his were it is clear he was trying to bullshit the > rest of us with this label. > > As to the average photo fan... I think if one can appreciate HCB's work in > lieu of big-eyed kittens and sunsets at the beach, that already sets you > apart from the photo.net masses. > > BK > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html