Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've seen the contact sheet as well, with different 'decisive moments' on it. It's still a great shot, but it had a director and an actor. Henning On 2012-06-17, at 4:50 AM, Richard Man wrote: > Well, with 3 confirmations, I guess this really cinches it. > > Thanks to all of you > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at > frozenlight.eu>wrote: > >> Same here. >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> On Jun 17, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Richard Taylor wrote: >> >>> Mark - I remember seeing the contact sheet with multiple jumps, too, but >> whether it was in connection with the NYLUG meting or elsewhere, I can't >> remember at the moment. >>> >>> Dick >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jun 17, 2012, at 3:51, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I was afraid of that. I went flipping though the book when I was in >>>> Portland last month and I never found the page. The show we saw in NY >> though >>>> was not that show you are mentioning. It was the Scrapbook show. Early >> work. >>>> It could be I dreamt the contact sheet of puddle jumping but I was not >> aware >>>> I was that delusional. Possible though. The place I would have seen it >>>> would have been in the International Center of Photography five years >> ago. >>>> Perhaps someone who was with me from the NYLUG can corroborate it. >>>> I certainly can not find it in numerous searches on Bing and Google >> contacts >>>> sheet mode searches. >>>> Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 >>>> JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 >>>> http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/henri-cartier-bressons-scrapbook >>>> >>>> - - from my iRabs. >>>> Mark Rabiner >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:37:02 -0700 >>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Subject: [Leica] "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: How about this one? >>>>> >>>>> Mark, I checked my copy of "Celebrating the Negative," and the negative >>>>> shown is just that single frame, cut off, without sprocket holes on on >> edge >>>>> even (Henri "ate them," so he said). >>>>> >>>>> No there is no contact sheet of the sequence. Unfortunately, it's not >>>>> included in the Magnum book "Contact Sheet" either. >>>>> >>>>> I went to the "Modern Century" show of HCB's photos a few years ago in >>>>> SFMOMA and there's no such contact sheet :-( >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at >>>>> rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> In the contact sheet in the book "Celebrating the Negative" by >>>>>> John Loengard you can see he is caught in the air jumping over the >> same >>>>>> puddle from the same spot at least 27 times. >>>>>> Some of us NY LUG guys also saw and discused that contact sheet when >> it was >>>>>> displayed in the early HCB show at the ICP in new York a few years >> ago: >>>>>> Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 >>>>>> JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 >>>>>> >>>>>> Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare better known as: >>>>>> The Puddle Jumper >>>>>> >>>>>> This photo findable now on the internet is mainly used as an example >> for >>>>>> the >>>>>> other myth. That HCB (or other Magnum shooters) never cropped. This >> photo >>>>>> is >>>>>> cropped by quite a bit. As are a handful of others of his. >>>>>> They are saying in many examples I find on the internet that he is >>>>>> shooting >>>>>> through a fence which reinforces the whole "decisive moment" myth; >> Waiting >>>>>> patiently some magic moment to happen from a hole in a fence clicking >> once >>>>>> and going home. >>>>>> But the guy jumps from the same place over the same puddle strip after >>>>>> strip. >>>>>> And there was no reason for HCB to not act like any other magazine >>>>>> photographer of the time and perhaps a bit less so, now.. To be >> heavily >>>>>> involved with what he was shooting. >>>>>> Of course its always depended on the exact kind of thing you're >> shooting. >>>>>> Baby shoes and so on. Hiring models to kiss in front of crowds of >> leering >>>>>> men... >>>>>> >>>>>> - - from my iRabs. >>>>>> Mark Rabiner >>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>>>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>>>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:52:29 -0700 >>>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] How about this one? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In the "Impassionated Eye" video, HCB explicitly said the same thing >> you >>>>>>> did, so I think the "asking the guy jumping multiple times" is a >> myth. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> and I just love this video >>>>>>> http://vimeo.com/33376713 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> >> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ... >>>>>>>> Finally, I won't put money on this - but I don't think HCB had the >> guy >>>>>> do >>>>>>>> anything. He was shooting through a hole in a fence, and shot a >> series >>>>>> of >>>>>>>> people as they tried to get across the puddle. The best of the >> images he >>>>>>>> got was of the famous jumper. At least I believe that's correct. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com