Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] HCB Article in NY Times
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Jan 26 13:36:30 2006

I share your opinion on weakness, and take it an heretical step further - I
think the portraiture is, with a few obvious exceptions, HCB's weakest work.
Like a lot of Eisenstadts work, it appears to have more to do with celebrity
access than it does photographic genius.


On 1/26/06 4:05 PM, "Alastair Firkin" <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:

> When we went to the "portrait" exhibition, I was struck by the overall
> casual approach to the images, but as a body of work, I think they are
> quite powerful. As individual images some are downright weak (IMHO).
> Take the one of Picasso in 67: well to me its just plain out of focus:
> not bokeh.
> 
> cheers
> On 27/01/2006, at 3:03, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
> 
>> The NY Times ran this article on HCB's portraits this morning.   You
>> may need to log in to read it.
>> 
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/arts/design/26cart.html
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dick
>> Boston MA
>> 
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