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Subject: [Leica] Why we photograph, artists who photograph, and HCB - golden mean
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Apr 11 17:02:10 2006

Fascinating to see, Jeffery, but why do I think that HCB  is sitting his his
studio in the sky, enjoying a snifter of heavenly cognac, laughing his ass
off?


On 4/11/06 7:54 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> In looking at many of HCB's photos in the documentary, I detected that HCB
> seemed to be looking for angles (one part of the documentary had HCB 
> talking
> constantly of "geometry"). The placement of subjects seemed to be 
> invariably
> on one side of an angle as I have collected here:
> 
> http://www.400tx.com/HCB.html
> 
> Even if these images aren't compellingly "golden mean" (I couldn't find
> little thumbnails of all of the examples they showed in the film), HCB
> almost never places his subjects in the center of the frame, and when he
> doesn't have an obvious diagonal, he often has a rule of thirds 
> composition.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of bob
> palmieri
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:49 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Why we photograph, artists who photograph, and HCB
> 
> 
> Jeffrey & Tina -
> 
> I know from the Golden Section, but I don't really understand how to
> use it in an organic way in snapping. Can you show me how it applies
> to, perhaps, some of HCB's pictures?
> 
> Bob Palmieri
> 
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