Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17

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Subject: [Leica] HCB exhibit and the New Yorker Review
From: charcot at comcast.net (Charcot)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:18:02 -0600
 
?He traveled all over the goddamned world, and you never felt that he was 
moved by something that was happening other than the beauty of it, or just 
the composition.? The problem of Cartier-Bresson?s art is the conjunction of 
aesthetic classicism and journalistic protocol: timeless truth and breaking 
news. He rendered a world that, set forth at MOMA by the museum?s chief 
curator of photography, Peter Galassi, richly satisfies the eye and the 
mind, while numbing the heart.

Read more: 
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2010/04/19/100419craw_artworld_schjeldahl#ixzz0lN2EKWEc

Sorry folks I don't get it - how does the reviewer draw all this from HCB .  
I for one am planning on spending $ to go to one of the hosting cities!

ernie
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