Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/11

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Subject: [Leica] Re: HCB exhibit
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun Feb 11 09:49:57 2007
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Just followed my own advice, being a sucker for facsimile editions.

Opinion on arrival next week.

cheaper on Amazon.

Ric


On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Ric Carter wrote:

> A facsimile edition of The Scrapbook -- now THAT is a must have!
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> <http://shopping.icp.org/store/product.html?product_id=26088>
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> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/
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> On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
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>> The International Center of Photography in New York is hosting an  
>> exhibit of Henri Carter-Bresson's scrapbook through April 29th.  
>> Why HCB's scrapbook? It seems that after WW2, HCB arrived in the  
>> US with a single scrapbook which summed up what he considered his  
>> best work, sort of a photographic autobiography. The images in the  
>> scrapbook became the focus of a MoMA show which burnished his  
>> reputation as the premier Leica photographer of his generation.  
>> The scrapbook, itself, was never seen in public. Now the  
>> International Center of Photography has restored it.
>>
>> HCB has been described as "an artistic journalist who never allows  
>> the immediacy of the event to get the better of his eye." But the  
>> scrapbook reveals that he wasn't much of a technician. His photos  
>> would probably be thoroughly criticized on the LUG. The scrapbook  
>> shows that many of his tiny pictures were blurry and hard to make  
>> out. The HCB legend owed much to the capabilities of lab  
>> technicians who managed to tease out memorable images from his  
>> photos.
>>
>> HCB claimed never to crop his photographs, contending that he  
>> framed the image as he wanted before ever pressing the shutter  
>> button. Apparently the scrapbook proves otherwise. Some of his  
>> most famous pictures are shown in uncropped form and are quite  
>> different from those released to the public. Does this ring a bell  
>> with recent posts on the LUG? Still, critics regard peering into  
>> HCB's scrapbook as similar to visiting a famous painter in his  
>> studio and seeing the preliminary sketches as well as the finished  
>> works. If you are in New York during the coming couple of months,  
>> don't miss the exhibit.
>>
>> Larry Z
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: HCB exhibit)
Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Re: HCB exhibit)