Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's a DVD produced by the French/German TV channel Arte of several 10 minute films where photographers, including HCB, describe their contact sheets and what they were trying to achieve. Yes he was a prolific snapper. I saw the big retrospective the year before last. No doubt about his greatness in my mind. Steve "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote on 25.05.2004, 19:23:29: > Here we go again - They weren't all "staged," but neither were virtually > any of them "decisive moments" if what you mean by decisive moment is > that in an instant he saw a photo before his eye, whipped his camera up, > and captured it in a single shot. > > I take the decisive moment to be that instant when you see the > photographic possibilities in a scene or even before you, not the > instant you push the shutter release, as you may push it dozens, if not > hundreds of times around a single scene or event - which the contacts > show HCB did. He was a prodigious shooter, and he really "worked" > scenes, bouncing around like a kangaroo on speed. > > As someone once observed - was it HCB himself - the decisive moment was > the instant when he saw the image on a contact sheet. > > B. D.