Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, with 3 confirmations, I guess this really cinches it. Thanks to all of you On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Same here. > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > On Jun 17, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Richard Taylor wrote: > > > Mark - I remember seeing the contact sheet with multiple jumps, too, but > whether it was in connection with the NYLUG meting or elsewhere, I can't > remember at the moment. > > > > Dick > > > > > > > > On Jun 17, 2012, at 3:51, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>