Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/28

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:29:32 -0400

Well, obviously that's what you thought you saw, but equally obvious now
is the fact that you did not. These things happen. As Errol Morris notes
in the title of his brilliant book, "Believing Is Seeing."

On 6/28/12 11:22 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

>I really don't know what this multiple jumper thing is I thought people
>were
>kidding. What I and the people standing next to me saw clearly on a
>contact
>sheet was the same guy making several go's at jumping a puddle.
>
>- - from my iRabs.
>Mark Rabiner
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
>> From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:55:58 -0400
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper
>> 
>> Amen.  I think the only way to close this would be to show us--who know
>>what
>> we saw--the contact sheet with only one jumper, or the contact sheet
>>with
>> multiple different jumpers.
>> 
>> Regards, 
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>>> Well if it didn't exist they shouldn't have put it in the show.
>>> 
>>> - - from my iRabs.
>>> Mark Rabiner
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:29:38 -0400
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Gallery and the Puddle Jumper
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks Lew! Hard to argue with evidence like that!
>>>> 
>>>> At least 3 luggers saw something which led them to believe that it's
>>>>THE
>>>> contact sheet, but it is what it is. I guess nothing further to be
>>>>said
>>>> unless the presenter of the event pipes up or if Martine Franc says
>>>> something :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you all luggers for being patience while this little bit of
>>>>photo
>>>> history being discussed.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Here's a direct quote of what  Agn?s Sire, head of the Fondation
>>>>>Henri
>>>>> Cartier-Bresson in Paris, where the archive of the photographer is
>>>>> conserved, stated yesterday:
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is absolutely wrong, there are no other negatives and no contact
>>>>> sheets in this period as HCB destroyed many things before war. What
>>>>>is
>>>>> true is what is in the Scrapbook, the non-cropped image.
>>>>> 
>>>>> FHCB originated the Scrapbook show and supplied its contents, all its
>>>>> material and images.
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>>> 
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