Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just saw it a couple of weeks ago. Nice, but not profound. At our next Photographic Society of Madras meeting on 19th Jan, we are projecting my copy of the Ted Grant DVD. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad On 13-Jan-2013, at 1:36 PM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information