Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Ted, buenos dias querido amigo! Has Leica any rough idea about your 380,000 images 99,99% with a Leica? I hope Leica gives you an special edition Leica MM "Dr. Ted Grant" and you come with it to Barcelona to the big meeting! Cheers Lluis El 14/01/2013, a las 00:55, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > AW gee whiz here we go again! :-) > That old guy HCB stealing my DVD thunder . :-) > > Hell he's dead so you can't ask him live questions and receive live life > responses!! :-) I can do that! :-) Buy mine! > > Here I am with an hour long BRAVO TV DVD produced by a North American TV > network simply because they thought I took some interesting photos, > travelled the world doing so and having a personal collection of edited > images in the National Archives of Canada of 280,000 images. Along with > another 100,000 in the National Gallery of Canada. 380,000, a lot of > clicks, 99% Leicas! > > It's the largest collection of photography by a single photographer in the > history of Canada! Seems cool to me, but I never thought about the numbers > until the TV program was aired. :-) Dang that sure is a pile of "Happy > Snapping!" But just think about all the fun and film I had and used! :-) > > Many of you have the DVD already with very favorable positive comments. > Thank you > > Anyway if yer interested? e-me on Friday sale day. Thank you. > > Canadian prices obviously different to HCB's. $40.oo plus shipping. > > It's an hour long live person documentary. Oh yeah along with interesting > photos and a special edition of a major selection of images as a separate > slide show! An honour winning production ! :-) > Stories and interviews not bad either. ;-) Got get a little plug in here. > :-) See you Friday > > cheers, > Dr. ted > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Cheyne" <geordiepete211 at > yahoo.co.uk> > To: <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:06 AM > Subject: [Leica] FS: DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Impassioned Eye > (2003),een film van Heinz Butler > > > This DVD has interviews with HCB and others, is 72 mins long, and the > subtitles are Dutch and French. Some of the speaking is in English, > but the majority is not. > > Snippet from NYT review: > > "Taking pictures means holding your breath with all your faculties > concentrated on capturing a fleeting reality," declares the pioneering > photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson near the end of Heinz Butler's > austere documentary portrait. In this small but stately film, > completed a year before the pioneering photojournalist Henri Cartier- > Bresson's death at 95 in August 2004, he slowly leafs through volumes > of his black-and-white photographs, shows some of his later drawings > and muses on his art to the severe, prickly strains of Bach piano > music. Even when viewed secondhand in a movie, these photographs are > something to see. Their formal elegance is balanced by an intense, > pulsing humanity. The documentary, which subscribes to the Great Man > school of reverential portraiture, is not a biography but an interview > (in French) conceived as a master class on art appreciation, with > guest commentators augmenting Cartier-Bresson's own sparsely chosen > words. ? Stephen Holden > > Including shipping, item is going for US$18 to my paypal account. > > All the best, > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > 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