Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12
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Key word. Artist. Majority of folks don't believe in surrealism, or only associate it with melting clocks and giant penis heads on the beach. The subtlety or interplay of surrealism and reality are often missed, or called post modern. It's too bad that personal reality has been so compromised for so many people that surrealism seems part of the modern landscape.
Chris Saganich
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From: lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:10 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ?
Cartier-Bresson, for all the talk about his being a photojournalist, was
not a photojournalist - he was an artist whose brush was the camera. The
photo of the man jumping the puddle is just that - a photo of a man
jumping a puddle. It is not a news photo of the aftermath of a flood.
It is what it is. And, btw, I would argue it is....surreal. :-)
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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Tim Atherton
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:04 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ?
> IF it was faked - and based on the present evidence, I believe it was
> real - but IF it was fake, then he indeed disguised it as something -
> he disguised it as a photograph of a soldier who had just been shot,
> dying in combat. Period.
>
interesting parallel discussion on another (photojournalist) list with
this about the HCB/Puddle shot:
> So did Cartier Bresson. You need to see the contact sheets. I've seen
> a contact sheet of a famous Cartier Bresson shot. A man jumping over a
> puddle, which would seem to be a good example of the 'decisive' moment
> but in fact the contact sheet shows 36 attempts at the shot with the
> subject jumping over, repeatedly until the the shot was in the bag.
whatcha think?
(the poster assures me he saw the contact sheet...
tim
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