Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When you so a search you get all kinds of people talking all kinds of pictures of people jumping puddles all over the world and comparing them to the HCB as a parody. Yes its a fact of life sometimes you have to jump over a puddle. I did so this month even with two bad knees. A problem is you hope the place your foot lands on is not slippery. Otherwise somebody has to fish you out of the puddle. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:40:49 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: How about this one? > > I seem to recall reading that HCB explained that pedestrians had to jump > over that puddle in order to get somewhere (don't remember where or why > they all had to go to the same place or exit, apparently it was a common > path people took on exiting the gare). So there were many people jumping > the puddle that day & HCB (or his editors) simply chose the one they liked > best. It's interesting to speculate about the frame no, 39, too and > fantasize that it was the last shot on the roll. > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at > comcast.net>wrote: > >> Mark - I remember seeing the contact sheet with multiple jumps, too, but >> whether it was in connection with the NYLUG meting or elsewhere, I can't >> remember at the moment. >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> On Jun 17, 2012, at 3:51, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >>> I was afraid of that. I went flipping though the book when I was in >>> Portland last month and I never found the page. The show we saw in NY >> though >>> was not that show you are mentioning. It was the Scrapbook show. Early >> work. >>> It could be I dreamt the contact sheet of puddle jumping but I was not >> aware >>> I was that delusional. Possible though. The place I would have seen it >>> would have been in the International Center of Photography five years >> ago. >>> Perhaps someone who was with me from the NYLUG can corroborate it. >>> I certainly can not find it in numerous searches on Bing and Google >> contacts >>> sheet mode searches. >>> Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 >>> JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 >>> http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/henri-cartier-bressons-scrapbook >>> >>> - - from my iRabs. >>> Mark Rabiner >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >>> >>> >>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:37:02 -0700 >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: [Leica] "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: How about this one? >>>> >>>> Mark, I checked my copy of "Celebrating the Negative," and the negative >>>> shown is just that single frame, cut off, without sprocket holes on on >> edge >>>> even (Henri "ate them," so he said). >>>> >>>> No there is no contact sheet of the sequence. Unfortunately, it's not >>>> included in the Magnum book "Contact Sheet" either. >>>> >>>> I went to the "Modern Century" show of HCB's photos a few years ago in >>>> SFMOMA and there's no such contact sheet :-( >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> In the contact sheet in the book "Celebrating the Negative" by >>>>> John Loengard you can see he is caught in the air jumping over the same >>>>> puddle from the same spot at least 27 times. >>>>> Some of us NY LUG guys also saw and discused that contact sheet when >> it was >>>>> displayed in the early HCB show at the ICP in new York a few years ago: >>>>> Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932?1946 >>>>> JANUARY 19?APRIL 29, 2007 >>>>> >>>>> Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare better known as: >>>>> The Puddle Jumper >>>>> >>>>> This photo findable now on the internet is mainly used as an example >> for >>>>> the >>>>> other myth. That HCB (or other Magnum shooters) never cropped. This >> photo >>>>> is >>>>> cropped by quite a bit. As are a handful of others of his. >>>>> They are saying in many examples I find on the internet that he is >>>>> shooting >>>>> through a fence which reinforces the whole "decisive moment" myth; >> Waiting >>>>> patiently some magic moment to happen from a hole in a fence clicking >> once >>>>> and going home. >>>>> But the guy jumps from the same place over the same puddle strip after >>>>> strip. >>>>> And there was no reason for HCB to not act like any other magazine >>>>> photographer of the time and perhaps a bit less so, now.. To be heavily >>>>> involved with what he was shooting. >>>>> Of course its always depended on the exact kind of thing you're >> shooting. >>>>> Baby shoes and so on. Hiring models to kiss in front of crowds of >> leering >>>>> men... >>>>> >>>>> - - from my iRabs. >>>>> Mark Rabiner >>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> >>>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:52:29 -0700 >>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] How about this one? >>>>>> >>>>>> In the "Impassionated Eye" video, HCB explicitly said the same thing >> you >>>>>> did, so I think the "asking the guy jumping multiple times" is a myth. >>>>>> >>>>>> and I just love this video >>>>>> http://vimeo.com/33376713 >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> >> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> ... >>>>>>> Finally, I won't put money on this - but I don't think HCB had the >> guy >>>>> do >>>>>>> anything. He was shooting through a hole in a fence, and shot a >> series >>>>> of >>>>>>> people as they tried to get across the puddle. The best of the >> images he >>>>>>> got was of the famous jumper. At least I believe that's correct. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > -Lew S. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information