Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 18, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > "Hit and run" does ok with me in describing how Magnum and other > photojournalists worked both then and now. > They are all over the place very quickly shooting everything. > The are NOT standing around trying to blend into the woodwork waiting for > some decisive moment to magically present itself to them. > > I belive when we make picture we create out own moment. Decisively and > otherwise. > > > On 9/18/14 5:58 PM, "Philippe Amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote: > >> The original title I wouldn't be able to translate into English - A la >> Sauvette is a sort of "hit and run", illegally, and unnoticed or >> stealthily, which shows in the footages. >> It may only make sense to French speaking people, that is very few of >> us these days ;-) >> >> Matches the character he embodied of the dilletante gentleman >> photographer playing with the limits. so perhaps "the surreptitious moments" may be more accurate a translation than "the decisive moment" Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist