Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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