Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This DVD has interviews with HCB and others, is 72 mins long, and the subtitles are Dutch and French. Some of the speaking is in English, but the majority is not. Snippet from NYT review: "Taking pictures means holding your breath with all your faculties concentrated on capturing a fleeting reality," declares the pioneering photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson near the end of Heinz Butler's austere documentary portrait. In this small but stately film, completed a year before the pioneering photojournalist Henri Cartier- Bresson's death at 95 in August 2004, he slowly leafs through volumes of his black-and-white photographs, shows some of his later drawings and muses on his art to the severe, prickly strains of Bach piano music. Even when viewed secondhand in a movie, these photographs are something to see. Their formal elegance is balanced by an intense, pulsing humanity. The documentary, which subscribes to the Great Man school of reverential portraiture, is not a biography but an interview (in French) conceived as a master class on art appreciation, with guest commentators augmenting Cartier-Bresson's own sparsely chosen words. ? Stephen Holden Including shipping, item is going for US$18 to my paypal account. All the best, Peter Cheyne