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

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Subject: [Leica] The Critic
From: timatherton at theedge.ca (Tim Atherton)
Date: Tue May 25 18:15:59 2004

> Tim,
>
> Your paragraph is perfect, exactly right.   Thanks.

Actually it's a quote from John Brownlow (aka Johnny Deadman) from the
archives...

tim

>
> "The point is, IMAGES A LA SAUVETTE has no sense of 'decision' in it, but
> reflects, IMHO, the true nature of HCB's work as a kind of supercondensed
> snapshot in which geometric relations between people and things
> snap into a
> kind of perfect but unstable equilibrium... a stasis, where
> things just hang
> there, like a marble perfectly balance on the top of an upturned
> wok, which
> won't be there the next time you look back."
>
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