Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Funnily enough, I recall having seen the alleged contact sheet at an exhibition somewhen, but I remember not having been deeply convinced by its authenticity. That may of course be because I have been brought up on the "legend" of The Decisive Moment and that shot's place in it. On the other hand why would anyone fake it? Peter On 17/06/2012 08:51, Mark Rabiner 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 > > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig