--- John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you look at the HCB Retrospective at Magnum, > you'll find that > there is a requirement that the images be used > exactly as shown, > with no cropping (and not for commercial purposes). > But this does > not mean that the images as shown are uncropped, and > in fact the > famous shot of the construction zone behind the > station is cropped > (as is mentioned in the accompanying description). > > That's actually one of the HCB shots I really like. > That one, the > rather abstract bicycle+railings (department Vars?), > and the post- > WW II shot of a collaborator being denounced are my > favourites. A > lot of his other works (in particular many of the > Marseilles beach > shots, and much of the street portraiture) do > nothing for me. >
John, In your post that I'm now replying to, only two of the lines that you've attributed to me were actually written by me. This is actually no trivial matter, because I think that the issue of whether HCB cropped may be fairly important - at least it is to me. I don't mean to dump on you personally, as it's a widespread problem. It seems to me that if one is going to quote a previous post (which of course is only polite, as it puts a reply in context), care should be taken to make sure that quotes are attributed to their proper authors. Again, not trying to point at you specifically, but in this case it might appear that I'm taking a contrary statement to what I've been consistently saying in the past day as regards this issue. So, I thought I'd mention it <vbg>. Thanks for your understanding. cheers, frank ===== "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
