[Leica] The Return of The Decisive Moment

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

That is correct. Practically speaking, "no one" does photogravure any more.
Rather than looking at the new editions as pale shadow of the originals or
even bad compared to state of the arts printing, I look at it as the
standard which made HCB happy enough at that time. Since there are so much
negative responses, I wasn't going to say anything, but for $100, I think
it's a great collection anyone's library. This is the original vision of
The Decisive Moment, not the 1000 ways people mistake it to be.

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Phil Swango <paswango at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't seen this book yet but the comment about scanning the pages of
> an original copy (rather than negatives) caught my attention.  It occurred
> to me that the intent might have been to reproduce the look of the gravure
> process used for the original prints.  According to the link below, this is
> what actually happened.  I have seen one copy of the original edition, and
> though the gravure process gives a lovely tonality, it lacks the crispness
> we've become used to in later technologies.  Very interesting IMO.
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> http://time.com/3590594/the-return-of-henri-cartier-bressons-decisive-moment/
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