Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 5/12/04 11:44 AM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > Yes. Or, more correctly, simply surrealist. Which is what HCB was. He > was NOT, and did not consider himself, a photojournalist, despite the > fact that he did some great photojournalism. But as far better educated > commentators than I have pointed out, some of his most iconic, > no-journalistic images, emerged from his some of his magazine > assignments. > > B. D. Well his stuff does not look too much to me like Salvador Dali (no melting clocks) but as I look into it I see my ignorance. There was a big surrealist "movement" in photography I imagine they used the term differently then the painters did. Man Ray and Lee Miller I saw are grouped in that school among others. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon New-improved http://rabinergroup.com/