Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Okay - who speaks good French? "Images a la sauvette" (couldn't get an accent on the a) - published in English as The Decisive Moment. Tim A > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch > Sent: September 21, 1999 3:35 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; Leica Users digest > Subject: Re: [Leica] Why street photos? > > > At 06:53 PM 9/21/99 +0100, Johnny Deadman wrote: > >This also has HCB's introduction from > >THE DECISIVE MOMENT in it, I think (what a stupid title, by the > way...HCB is > >much more about the indecisive moment, which the original French title > >implies). > > What do you mean? What is the original French title, and what > does it mean, > exactly. Considering the talk for years before and after that using that > very word - Decisive - and long treatises on the subject, this comment > seems to me to border on the absurd. > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. >