[Leica] HCB exhibit and the New Yorker Review

[rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)]

I read the review earlier this morning, before seeing your post.

The quote you have in quotation marks is I believe from Robert Frank,
while the reviewer's conclusion is as stated in your post.

I'll be interested in your opinions after you've seen the exhibit.

I've seen a lot of HCB's work and while I disagree for the most part
with this reviewer's opinion of it I think I can see how he gets to
it.

--Bob

===On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Charcot <charcot at comcast.net> wrote:
> ?He traveled all over the goddamned world, and you never felt that he was 
> moved by something that was happening other than the beauty of it, or just 
> the composition.? The problem of Cartier-Bresson?s art is the conjunction 
> of aesthetic classicism and journalistic protocol: timeless truth and 
> breaking news. He rendered a world that, set forth at MOMA by the museum?s 
> chief curator of photography, Peter Galassi, richly satisfies the eye and 
> the mind, while numbing the heart.
>
> Read more: 
> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2010/04/19/100419craw_artworld_schjeldahl#ixzz0lN2EKWEc
>
> Sorry folks I don't get it - how does the reviewer draw all this from HCB 
> . ?I for one am planning on spending $ to go to one of the hosting cities!
>
> ernie
>