[Leica] HCB exhibit and the New Yorker Review

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

You might also find this interesting:

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/04/henri-cartierbresson-at-moma-and-elsewhere.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/y2pqbak

--Bob

==-On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Charcot <charcot at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>