Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25

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Subject: [Leica] The Critic
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (robertmeier@usjet.net)
Date: Tue May 25 10:03:06 2004
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> 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?
>

Ted,  no, I didn't say that, nor mean that.   The repetitions are in the
poster behind him which shows a circus performer in the same position,
roughly, that the jumper is in, and the various semi-circles in the water
(and elsewhere I remember, but I don't have the picture infront of me) that
repeat the lines of his arms, etc.

> 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.
>

Are you charging that HCB staged this shot?  What is the basis for your
accusation?



> 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!"
>
A decisive moment, certainly.     But "the re-creations by HCB"?  You think
ALL of his pictures were staged?

Bob


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