[Leica] HCB exhibit and the New Yorker Review

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

Yr welcome. Robert Frank's comment sent me on another rant.... Thanks for
enduring same.

V

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Charcot <charcot at comcast.net> wrote:

> Vince - thanks for your insights.
> ernie
> On Apr 17, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Vince Passaro wrote:
>
> > Scheldahl is a particular reviewer, a very good one, but he favors
> passion
> > and what you might call psychological bloodletting over, say, a near
> perfect
> > mimetic and compositional skill. HCB took reality and revealed its
> deepest
> > REALITY -- while also revealing -- and indeed BY also revealing -- its
> > hidden forms. He comes off, undeniably, as cool and distant from what he
> > "composes" -- as opposed, say, to Eugene Smith, whose passionate
> engagement
> > speaks loudly in his photographs.  So Schjeldahl is right in a way,
> except
> > in his personal sense that such a vision as HCB's "numbs" the heart. I
> think
> > for many of us the formal beauty that he discovers and reveals in a
> moment,
> > a scene, an image of reality breaks the heart wide open, in the way, say,
> > that the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' could quite literally feel divine
> > creative reality in a mont in nature, seeing a falcon or a dawn -- "The
> > world is charged with the grandeur of God! It will flame out--" etc.
> >
> > Vince
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:18 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
> >>
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