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Subject: [Leica] Being a fly on the wall
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:58:25 -0700
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>>> I If you look
>>> at the street photography of Cartier Bresson, for instance, since the
>>> thread
>>> started there: in my opinon you will see a shy and quiet and retiring
>>> photographer: he's devastatingly observant and smart but he's never all
>>> that
>>> close. (Paris Comment, you might call him) (pronounce it with a strong
>>> French accent... never mind).  Cartier Bresson is contemplative, almost 
>>> zen
>>> in mood, with every vision seeming deeply composed, even amid the 
>>> changing
>>> forms of an urban street.


take a look at Cartier-Bresson's book, An Inner Silence...  for his  
portraits,


Steve



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