Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > >Kyle asked about HCB..... >-- i >assume he's signing reprints, or whatever they're doing now. i suppose he >doesn't have to do anything for money. i wonder how he passes his days. > from a NYTimes story Tuesday. This is snipped from a story on "perfect" art. Too realistic or photographic or what-have-you & the fact that some old masters may have used a form of camera obscura to make their paintings.... "And, Mr. Spike said, an additional bit of confirmation came when he was looking at a Caravaggio in London with Mr. Hockney. An old Frenchman came by cursing at the work. He shook his cane at the painting and denounced it for being too much like a photograph. It turned out that nut was Henri Cartier-Bresson. " - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html