Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:34 PM 5/4/99 -0300, you wrote: >HCB was someday outside St. >Lazare gate. He saw a puddle, he saw a ladder and he conceived a photo. It >doesn't really matter if that moment of conception was separated by two >seconds or two years from the "real" moment. As he says, the only instant >that matters is the 1/125 f;8. And nothing else. There is a whole world of difference between Dosineau paying a couple to go around Paris kissing, and HCB conceiving a picture by looking at the ladder in the puddle and waiting for someone to walk to the end and jump. When you look at HCB's picture, you see something that really happened in the real world, without intervention - a fiction - by the photographer. That was a major part of HCB's aesthetic. To capture life. Not create fiction. I could do what Dosineau did with a bunch of pictures and Photoshop. No big deal. No real effort. No great timing. No keen eye. That's the difference. Not that Dosineau's pictures aren't wonderful and meaningful in their own way. But he is pulp fiction compared to HCB's documentary. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Your E-Mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage