Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By complete serendipity, I walked by a local art gallery here in Toronto, the Stephen Bulger Gallery, several weekends ago. There was a photograph in the window that looked vaguely familiar, with the word Magnum below it. Of course, I walked in! It was "50 Years of Magnum", a display of about 25 prints or so, by McCurry, Arnold, Capa, Erwitt, and of course, HCB plus several others. Turns out, I wandered by on the last day of the exhibit. Of course, I was in Heaven! To see actual prints of some of the most famous photos ever taken was at once inspiring and humbling. Afghan Girl, Death of a Loyalist Soldier, Omaha Beach, Nixon and Kruschev, Mother Holding Newborn's Hand (I know these aren't the exact titles, but I'm sure you all know to what I'm referring) - it was unbeleivable. There's a point here, and I'm getting to it. <vbg> There was one HCB, the famous image of the French boy with the wine bottles, huge grin on his face. Truly amazing!! I wonder if Henri looked around for a parent, and then asked permission to photograph the child? Can you imagine such a thing? I can't! I know we live in a different world, but please feel free to draw whatever conclusion(s) you want from this... regards, frank Clif Wright wrote: > > > I must emphatically second this post! Picture the > original Family of Man (or FOM2 for that matter) > without candid photos of children or the work of > Bresson and thousands of other photographers. Just > because the security guards of the world would take > away our freedoms in a heartbeat does not mean we > should roll over and go away or convince ourselves > that we were "dumb enough" to practice our art. > Clif Wright > > ===== > http://www.pbase.com/clifwright > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- "What a senseless waste of human life" - -The Customer in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html