[Leica] HCB

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Indeed not!
> 
> Also there's Doisneau and Boubat. Doisneau is possibly underestimated by 
> many
> because "The Kiss" is so well known, and some of his shots (the kiss 
> included)
> were set up, but he did some outstanding work. Boubat is possibly my all 
> time
> favourite French photographer. He had a wonderful eye and he was one of 
> those
> whose photographs make me think he was photographing from the inside 
> looking
> out, where as I've always felt that HCB was an outsider looking inwards -
> which isn't to say he was a bad photographer, just a different one.
> 
> Steve


You ever see the contact sheet in the contact sheet book of HCB having that
fat guy jump over the mud puddle dozens of times?
You could say that shot was set up too.
Its called "working it" and they way most photographers who made a living
doing photography for magazines or newspapers worked.
But in these case is the prime example of "the decisive moment".
Which was decisively done enough times to decisively get it right.

The prime example of the wonderfulness of available light is Smiths
Minamata.
And he did it with a bunch flash.

Its always what you don't think.

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Mark William Rabiner