[Leica] WAS: Intro NOW: HCB.

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

I don't think of him a surrealist with a camera BD... a painter with a 
camera perhaps, or maybe a sociologist with a camera? :-)

Parke-Harrison are surrealists with a camera:
http://www.bonnibenrubi.com/Parkeharrison/parkeharrison.html
http://www.parkeharrison.com/
http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/parkeharrison/parkeharrison04.html

Jim


B. D. Colen wrote:

> True enough. The other thing to keep in mind when thinking about HCB is
> that while we may be looking to capture something about the human
> condition, he was looking to capture something having to do with form,
> shape and light. Not to start the surrealist thread again, but Gdamnit,
> he was not a PJ - although he did some PJ - he was a surrealist with a
> camera. 
> 
> B. D.
> 
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> Ted Grant
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> B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 2:13 PM
> Subject: RE: Re: [Leica] Intro
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> 
>>I'd argue that the "decisive moment" was that instant in which he saw,
> 
> 
>>or anyone sees, the possibilities in a particular setting or 
>>situation. He didn't see a guy in mid-jump across a puddle and shoot -
> 
> 
>>he saw a puddle and the possibilities it presented; he didn't see 
>>someone on a given staircase - he saw the staircase, and waited for 
>>the right person in the right position. Others of just might have shot
> 
> 
>>a puddle, or a staircase. ;-)<<
> 
> 
> And because he was a consummate artist he would see elements in a street
> 
> scene and know one element was missing just by looking. However, the
> gift he 
> had was to see and then wait for the one element that created the
> "Decisive 
> moment."
> 
> The rest of us see things and capture good photo moments, but he had
> this 
> ability to see something good and yet know it required one tiny extra
> thing 
> or wait the moment longer to make it the perfect picture if you like.
> 
> 
>>>he didn't see someone on a
>>
>>given staircase - he saw the staircase, and waited for the right 
>>person in the right position. ;-)<<
> 
> 
> Absolutely! As that's one of the gifts he had, was to wait for the icing
> on 
> the cake to make it perfect. But most of all he had the patience to
> wait. 
> The rest of us are always in a hurry to go some place, either to work,
> going 
> to the Mall or wherever and our pictures quite often are a grabbed
> moment 
> instead of seeing the complete moment by waiting a few minutes or longer
> for 
> the filling in the cake to make it great!
> 
> ted
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