I'm in love again: Cartier-Bresson at Work

To me Cartier-Bresson was always the greatest. I saw his exhibition in Toronto a few years ago.
I once read that he had his little old Leica and no light meter. He judged the light and exposed correctly every time.

The Slate author's commentary was interesting on that..

I like Marc Riboud too, but never see much about him...

Great Photographer
Never heard of him in till 1971, I went to a White Elephant Sale held by the Womens Club of Canton,
I came across a a book Decisive Moments for $1.00. I read it bought it for a dollar. I think it`s one of the great books of my time Still have the book.
Wish I could afford one of his larger original photos.
Yes ,I still hit those White Elephant Sales



http://www.e-photobooks.com/cartier-bresson/decisive-moment.html

If I had a different bank account, I'd be a photography collector.. as it is, I often have bought books, often from used book stores.

A few years back I treated myself to a copy of "HCB and the Artless Art". In addition to all of the well known photos it has an amazing amount of not otherwise published pictures. The text is dry and academic but interesting.

I highly recommend it to HCB fans. I have a lot of photo books and this is the one I take down to browse through most often.

WOW

In the olden days when I was serious about photography (black and white) you could still buy technical pan f film and Medalist paper from the local camera shop. I used a Pentax 4 x 5 and a Canon F1n 35 mm. I have no idea what is still available in the line of film or paper. I still have the Canon F1n.

Ok i found a source for Ilford Delta 100 iso, Professional film, anyone have any experience with this film?

I adore slides 2 and 7. There is just something about both of them.


Slide 2 has a lot of reflections and movement in it. I have a thing for rain/reflection right now.

With 7 I think it was just the angles caught me..

I am familiar with Bresson, but hadn't seen a real assemblage of his photos. His eye for the geometry of a photograph was pretty amazing.

The other fellow in the photo show, Martin Munkacsi, whom I'd never heard of before I saw the Slate article, turns out to have had a major role in the development of photojournalism, and also in fashion photography. I caught on to this in the mentions of him in an article about Leni Riefenstahl that I read this last weekend in the New Yorker -

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/03/19/070319crbo_books_thurman

What a great man he must have been. There is something about Hungarians that is admirable and exciting.
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Robert Capa was the greatest war photographer. He was like an implausible Hollywood idol, only he was for real. He said no to Ingrid Bergman because he knew that he would not live long. Here are a few things he said:
* "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."

* "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."

* "The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."

* "This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous." (Speaking of WWII)

* "The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business."
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