[Leica] Ted Grant: 60 Years... LEICA GALLERY NEW YORK.

[jplaurel at gmail.com (Jim Gmail)]

I may be in New York in the 24th, Ted. Hope to see you there!

-Jim

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> On Feb 21, 2014, at 21:26, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Crew,
> 
> A couple of things :  Printer and invitation to New York GALLERY SHOW! :-).
> 
> 
> 
> Today I had the great pleasure of signing the prints for the LEICA GALLERY 
> New York presentation 24 April 2014. opening.
> 
> I have never seen prints made of this caliber any where before!   "My 
> printer!" :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Well OK. c'mon now it was "cool for HCB to have a printer!' ;-) ;-) Laugh 
> now for heaven sakes I'm joking a bit. :-) HCB had a printer along with a 
> bunch of those really old guys who no longer can tell you how they did it? 
> ;-) The neat part about me?  I can still tell you how it was during the 
> past 65 years without any bullshit! :-) Nor fancy lying writers! :-)
> 
> 
> 
> And because I come along with a line about "my printer?" Some people will 
> get wet pants because I said it. No what! Pee yourselves silly simply 
> because only those who attend the New York show will see what this printer 
> has done. Truly beyond your wildest imagination!
> 
> 
> 
> Such an incredible printer that only those who have the good fortune to 
> visit the New York Gallery will appreciate what I'm saying. In all my 
> years I've never seen print quality such as he has pulled out of some 
> ancient negs/slides and or old time prints.
> 
> They truly are quite amazing.
> 
> 
> 
> In any event copied below is a copy of the invite to the opening you might 
> like to have a look at. Maybe a bit long. I DIDN'T WRITE IT EITHER! :-) 
> But it's interesting! :-) Smile!
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> LEICA GALLERY NEW YORK
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> 
> Ted Grant
> 
> Sixty Years of Legendary Photojournalism
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> Opening reception Thursday, April 24, 2014, 6-8 pm
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> Duration April 25-June 7, 2014
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> Opening Hours Tue-Fri 12-6 pm, Sat 12-5 pm
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> 
> Since Yousuf Karsh died in 2002, Ted Grant is generally recognized as 
> Canada's greatest living photographer. - Photographer's Forum Magazine
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> 
> Renowned photojournalist Ted Grant has made a career out of being in the 
> right place at the right time. Over his sixty years in the business, he 
> has immortalized some of the greatest events in history and caught some of 
> the world's most famous and elusive subjects in rare moments of unaffected 
> humanity. His photographs have been featured in numerous ads and 
> publications worldwide, and he has been a teacher and mentor to countless 
> students of photography and medicine through his lectures at Leica 
> International Seminars, Yale Medical School, and Carleton University.
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> 
> 
> Although he may be best known for his candid shots of  political leaders 
> and other dignitaries-including Pierre Trudeau, Ronald Reagan, Jackie 
> Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, David Ben-Gurion, and Patrice Lumumba-Grant 
> has never tied himself down to just one subject. He has covered several 
> Olympic Games, conducted investigative assignments for the National Film 
> Board of Canada on topics ranging from Arctic ice fishing to prairie 
> cattle drives, and silently documented medical professionals in the midst 
> of life-saving surgeries. 
> 
> 
> 
> Most people know the work of the man who captured Canada's fifteenth prime 
> minister sliding down the banister, but few people know Ted Grant's 
> name-until now. In 2013, the definitive story of Canada's greatest 
> photographer appeared at last. Thelma Fayle's Ted Grant: Sixty Years of 
> Legendary Photojournalism presents an even-handed cross-section of Grant's 
> lifework, but, more than that, provides an iconic and intimate portrait of 
> the second half of the twentieth century, Canada's coming of age, and the 
> man who saw it all through the lens of his camera. As varied as these 
> images are, Ted's respect for all of his subjects, his ability to cut 
> through the fa?ades of public figures and coax ordinary citizens into the 
> limelight, is evident in each and every one. 
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> 
> 
> In the 1930s, people called it a lazy eye. Ted Grant had one. The doctor 
> gave him a patch to wear over his good eye, intending to strengthen the 
> weaker one. Ted headed back to school, where he was promptly told by his 
> teacher to "take that thing off." She thought he was being the class 
> clown. 
> 
> Fast forward a few years, and, if Malcolm Gladwell's theory as suggested 
> in his book Outliers
> 
> is correct, the intensity of Ted's early shooting regimen would be a 
> factor in his ultimate success as an outlier. Ted completed his initial 
> ten thousand hours of photography practice before he was twenty-five years 
> old-not bad considering he only received his first camera when he was 
> twenty-one. Ted's way of seeing the world with his one good eye was 
> evolving. - Thelma Fayle 
> 
> 
> 
> How many prime ministers, kings, or presidents have you ever seen hop on a 
> railing and slide down-clean, completely balanced, and arms outstretched? 
> For anyone who remembers the intense, confident, and playful nature of 
> this former prime minister of Canada, we know the image presents a 
> symbolic facsimile of the subject's inspired life. 
> 
> 
> 
> If I hadn't turned around when I heard people starting to laugh, I would 
> have missed it. I took three shots with a hand-held, manually focused 
> Leica at ASA 800. Two of the three shots were out of focus. - Ted Grant 
> 
> 
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> Ted Grant has published five books and is the recipient of many awards, 
> including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of 
> Photographers and Illustrators in Communication, an honorary doctorate of 
> laws degree from the University of Victoria, and both a gold and silver 
> medal for photographic excellence from the National Film Board of Canada. 
> A collection of over 300,000 of his photographs is housed at the Ted Grant 
> Photo Collection in the National Archives of Canada. He lives in Victoria, 
> British Columbia. 
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> Front cover: Pierre Trudeau, 1968
> 
> Back cover: Jackie Kennedy, 1961; Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitten, 1958; 
> Ben-Gurion's Hair, 1961
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