Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was afraid of that. I went flipping though the book when I was in Portland last month and I never found the page. The show we saw in NY though was not that show you are mentioning. It was the Scrapbook show. Early work. It could be I dreamt the contact sheet of puddle jumping but I was not aware I was that delusional. Possible though. The place I would have seen it would have been in the International Center of Photography five years ago. Perhaps someone who was with me from the NYLUG can corroborate it. I certainly can not find it in numerous searches on Bing and Google contacts sheet mode searches. Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/henri-cartier-bressons-scrapbook - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:37:02 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: How about this one? > > Mark, I checked my copy of "Celebrating the Negative," and the negative > shown is just that single frame, cut off, without sprocket holes on on edge > even (Henri "ate them," so he said). > > No there is no contact sheet of the sequence. Unfortunately, it's not > included in the Magnum book "Contact Sheet" either. > > I went to the "Modern Century" show of HCB's photos a few years ago in > SFMOMA and there's no such contact sheet :-( > > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> In the contact sheet in the book "Celebrating the Negative" by >> John Loengard you can see he is caught in the air jumping over the same >> puddle from the same spot at least 27 times. >> Some of us NY LUG guys also saw and discused that contact sheet when it >> was >> displayed in the early HCB show at the ICP in new York a few years ago: >> Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 >> JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 >> >> Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare better known as: >> The Puddle Jumper >> >> This photo findable now on the internet is mainly used as an example for >> the >> other myth. That HCB (or other Magnum shooters) never cropped. This photo >> is >> cropped by quite a bit. As are a handful of others of his. >> They are saying in many examples I find on the internet that he is >> shooting >> through a fence which reinforces the whole "decisive moment" myth; Waiting >> patiently some magic moment to happen from a hole in a fence clicking once >> and going home. >> But the guy jumps from the same place over the same puddle strip after >> strip. >> And there was no reason for HCB to not act like any other magazine >> photographer of the time and perhaps a bit less so, now.. To be heavily >> involved with what he was shooting. >> Of course its always depended on the exact kind of thing you're shooting. >> Baby shoes and so on. Hiring models to kiss in front of crowds of leering >> men... >> >> - - from my iRabs. >> Mark Rabiner >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >> >> >>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:52:29 -0700 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] How about this one? >>> >>> In the "Impassionated Eye" video, HCB explicitly said the same thing you >>> did, so I think the "asking the guy jumping multiple times" is a myth. >>> >>> and I just love this video >>> http://vimeo.com/33376713 >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> ... >>>> Finally, I won't put money on this - but I don't think HCB had the guy >> do >>>> anything. He was shooting through a hole in a fence, and shot a series >> of >>>> people as they tried to get across the puddle. The best of the images he >>>> got was of the famous jumper. At least I believe that's correct. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information