[Leica] Ted Grant: 60 Years... LEICA GALLERY NEW YORK.

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Chris and I will be there also.  Looking forward to seeing Ted, his 
exhibition, and those LUG members who will be attending.

Gene

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From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 10:13:44 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted Grant: 60 Years... LEICA GALLERY NEW YORK.

Tom and I will be there!  Looking forward to it.

Well deserved congratulations!!

Tina


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:26 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Crew,
>
> A couple of things :  Printer and invitation to New York GALLERY SHOW! :-).
>
>
>
> Today I had the great pleasure of signing the prints for the LEICA GALLERY
> New York presentation 24 April 2014. opening.
>
> I have never seen prints made of this caliber any where before!   "My
> printer!" :-)
>
>
>
> Well OK. c'mon now it was "cool for HCB to have a printer!' ;-) ;-) Laugh
> now for heaven sakes I'm joking a bit. :-) HCB had a printer along with a
> bunch of those really old guys who no longer can tell you how they did it?
> ;-) The neat part about me?  I can still tell you how it was during the
> past 65 years without any bullshit! :-) Nor fancy lying writers! :-)
>
>
>
> And because I come along with a line about "my printer?" Some people will
> get wet pants because I said it. No what! Pee yourselves silly simply
> because only those who attend the New York show will see what this printer
> has done. Truly beyond your wildest imagination!
>
>
>
> Such an incredible printer that only those who have the good fortune to
> visit the New York Gallery will appreciate what I'm saying. In all my years
> I've never seen print quality such as he has pulled out of some ancient
> negs/slides and or old time prints.
>
> They truly are quite amazing.
>
>
>
> In any event copied below is a copy of the invite to the opening you might
> like to have a look at. Maybe a bit long. I DIDN'T WRITE IT EITHER! :-) But
> it's interesting! :-) Smile!
>
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>
>
> LEICA GALLERY NEW YORK
>
>
>
> Ted Grant
>
> Sixty Years of Legendary Photojournalism
>
>
>
> Opening reception Thursday, April 24, 2014, 6-8 pm
>
> Duration April 25-June 7, 2014
>
> Opening Hours Tue-Fri 12-6 pm, Sat 12-5 pm
>
>
>
> Since Yousuf Karsh died in 2002, Ted Grant is generally recognized as
> Canada's greatest living photographer. - Photographer's Forum Magazine
>
>
>
> Renowned photojournalist Ted Grant has made a career out of being in the
> right place at the right time. Over his sixty years in the business, he has
> immortalized some of the greatest events in history and caught some of the
> world's most famous and elusive subjects in rare moments of unaffected
> humanity. His photographs have been featured in numerous ads and
> publications worldwide, and he has been a teacher and mentor to countless
> students of photography and medicine through his lectures at Leica
> International Seminars, Yale Medical School, and Carleton University.
>
>
>
> Although he may be best known for his candid shots of  political leaders
> and other dignitaries-including Pierre Trudeau, Ronald Reagan, Jackie
> Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, David Ben-Gurion, and Patrice Lumumba-Grant has
> never tied himself down to just one subject. He has covered several Olympic
> Games, conducted investigative assignments for the National Film Board of
> Canada on topics ranging from Arctic ice fishing to prairie cattle drives,
> and silently documented medical professionals in the midst of life-saving
> surgeries.
>
>
>
> Most people know the work of the man who captured Canada's fifteenth prime
> minister sliding down the banister, but few people know Ted Grant's
> name-until now. In 2013, the definitive story of Canada's greatest
> photographer appeared at last. Thelma Fayle's Ted Grant: Sixty Years of
> Legendary Photojournalism presents an even-handed cross-section of Grant's
> lifework, but, more than that, provides an iconic and intimate portrait of
> the second half of the twentieth century, Canada's coming of age, and the
> man who saw it all through the lens of his camera. As varied as these
> images are, Ted's respect for all of his subjects, his ability to cut
> through the fa?ades of public figures and coax ordinary citizens into the
> limelight, is evident in each and every one.
>
>
>
> In the 1930s, people called it a lazy eye. Ted Grant had one. The doctor
> gave him a patch to wear over his good eye, intending to strengthen the
> weaker one. Ted headed back to school, where he was promptly told by his
> teacher to "take that thing off." She thought he was being the class clown.
>
> Fast forward a few years, and, if Malcolm Gladwell's theory as suggested
> in his book Outliers
>
> is correct, the intensity of Ted's early shooting regimen would be a
> factor in his ultimate success as an outlier. Ted completed his initial ten
> thousand hours of photography practice before he was twenty-five years
> old-not bad considering he only received his first camera when he was
> twenty-one. Ted's way of seeing the world with his one good eye was
> evolving. - Thelma Fayle
>
>
>
> How many prime ministers, kings, or presidents have you ever seen hop on a
> railing and slide down-clean, completely balanced, and arms outstretched?
> For anyone who remembers the intense, confident, and playful nature of this
> former prime minister of Canada, we know the image presents a symbolic
> facsimile of the subject's inspired life.
>
>
>
> If I hadn't turned around when I heard people starting to laugh, I would
> have missed it. I took three shots with a hand-held, manually focused Leica
> at ASA 800. Two of the three shots were out of focus. - Ted Grant
>
>
>
> Ted Grant has published five books and is the recipient of many awards,
> including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of
> Photographers and Illustrators in Communication, an honorary doctorate of
> laws degree from the University of Victoria, and both a gold and silver
> medal for photographic excellence from the National Film Board of Canada. A
> collection of over 300,000 of his photographs is housed at the Ted Grant
> Photo Collection in the National Archives of Canada. He lives in Victoria,
> British Columbia.
>
>
>
> Front cover: Pierre Trudeau, 1968
>
> Back cover: Jackie Kennedy, 1961; Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitten, 1958;
> Ben-Gurion's Hair, 1961
>
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