Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bob - should be fun. Both the NY Times article and the New yorker draw robert Frank into the mix. Interesting. I haven't followed Frank's stuff at all since The Americans which I consider one of the greatest photography tomes ever. ernie On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Robert D. Baron wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information