Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Buzz I almost agree with you...No, I do agree with you. A great achievement in a field with many great achievers. I'd mention a few days ago I saw the Aperture show in St. Pete. That may have gotten me a bit riled about Jeffery looking for simple answers to complex questions. Although there were many fantastic works included in the show, HCB's photo of L'Abbe Pierre really hit me. Humanism? The ability to put yourself aside and shoot while dispensing with your own personality? A gift? Hell, I don't know except it has little or nothing to do with rules of thirds. Walt Buzz Hausner wrote: >I would imagine that everyone of us except Slobodan has taken a few mediocre >pictures in her or his career, and "Man and Machine" certainly ranks near >the bottom of Cartier-Bresson's public opera, along with "Photoportraits." >The depth and range of H.C.-B.'s work is enormous and enormously varied and >as a body represents, in my opinion, the greatest achievement of any >photographer working in 35 mm. Just my opinion, though. > >Buzz Hausner > > >On 4/12/06 3:21 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > > > >>The local library has a copy of Man and Machine, an early and very >>journalistic collection by ( also very mediocre) HCB. Many of his images >>could qualify as "feature art" although the majority may be a bit quiet >>for the local press. >> >>Walt >> >>Buzz Hausner wrote: >> >> >> >>>Depends how one defines "Journalist," B.D. Cartier-Bresson did publish >>>his >>>work in various journals, including photographic essays in Life Magazine. >>>His photographs of Gandhi's assassination and aftermath should certainly >>>count as journalism. Was that his principal occupation? No. Was he >>>better >>>at it than most of us? As they say in Minnesota, "you betcha." >>> >>>Buzz >>> >>> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >