Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., Now that we are back on course and discussion images I have a question. Do you think the Saint-Lazare puddle jumper was a set up? Know anyone quick enough to get a scene like that with an old 1930s Leica? If it were a situation expected to occur then maybe but slice of life??? Another questionable image is Capa's /Loyalist Soldier /bitting the dust. Having seen a sequence of that take I'll never believe it is real. Would be very interested in your opinion.... Really admire HCB and Capa and don't think these instances made them less than great. As you know, sometimes we get carried away with enthusiasm. Can you imagine Capa returning home from Spain and finding fame waiting there? Sure, he is going to jump in with both feet and say "hey fellas, that guy didn't really get shot". Well, at least when we die and get to Photographer Hell we can ask them in person. Walt B. D. Colen wrote: >As I always tell my students - the "decisive moment" isn't the moment you >release the shutter, it's the instant when you see the photographic >possibilities in a situation and start working it. Think of the HCB photo of >the guy jumping the puddle - the decisive moment was that instant when he >saw the puddle through the fence, and realized what he could make of it. The >photo of the bike going past the bottom of the staircase? That would be the >moment he realize that the stair case and the curved street could yield a >visually interesting image - because of course we know that HCB was far more >interested in form, light, shapes and shadow than he was in people and >events. ;-) > > >On 3/20/06 7:42 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > >>>HCB contact sheets. He said he was amazed at what a prolific shooter HCB > >>>was- shot after shot after shot after shot of the same subject, worked >>> >>> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >