[Leica] The Critic

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Bob said:
>THIS is a decisive moment?  This is a centered pair of people in
silhouette,
> > > one with arms raised, nothing more.   This is not in the league of
HCB.<<

ted responded::
>>>> > And I suppose jumping over a puddle is such a big deal?<<<<

So Bob said:
>>> Yes, in the right circumstances.  At just the right moment.  With many
> reflections and repetitions of the motion.<<<<<<<

So Bob what your saying is....

Where HCB had the guy jump more than once, that's still a decisive moment
even though it was staged several times?

I see that as a repetitive moment, not a decisive moment.  Any idiot
photographer worth his salt can have someone do an action many times and
eventually capture something decisive looking. Then of course over a 60 year
or more span create the myth of it being caught as a one shot decisive
moment.

So why wouldn't this "moment of action with the arms raised even more valid
as a decisive moment, if we accept it was a "one shot moment of decisive
action?"

Heck I bet the shooter didn't have the girl do it a dozen times?

I stick by my earlier comment, this picture of the critic with arms raised,
as we see it presented here, is as decisive a moment as the re-creations by
HCB. Why shouldn't it be. Hell if it were presented as an HCB everyone would
pee their pants with "Oh man he's the greatest!"
ted