Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Riboud photo selected by Nathan is one of the best street/photojournalistic/markers of a period/moment ever captured. Great choice. So, at the risk of sounding like a heretic among a group of Leica "Monentistas," how can any discussion of French photographers not include Guy Bourdin, the fabulous fashion man who with his Nikons and obvious influence from photojournalism, created and staged "moments," visual ambiguities, conundrums, stories and more mostly in a photo genre we were not discussing and antithetical to what we do? Looking at photography today, his style seems to be the most imitated In about every area except landscape, wildlife and technical. Yes, I realize this is beyond the scope of the initial question, but had to ask since all those included in the initial, catholic (intentional lowercase "c") query are French. And, yes, I'm aware there are a few more French photographers, Leica guys even, worthy of mention. Yeah, I'm fascinated by Bourdin. Thanks for listening. Greg Rubenstein Sent from my iPhone