On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't exactly have a shooting list, but I like to visit places where > pictures were taken that I really like. I like to try and understand > what the photographer saw when he went there, and how easy or > difficult it must have been to get the picture. For instance, the view > of the Ile de la Cite from Pont Neuf in Paris has been photographed > 273 billion times, but somehow THE picture of it, for me, is > Cartier-Bresson's > http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxZoom_ > VPage&VBID=2K1HZO45X3IE9&IT=ImageZoom01&PN=3&STM=T&DTTM=Image&SP=Searc > h&IID=2S5RYDIOUH0U&SAKL=T&SGBT=T&DT=Image > > http://tinyurl.com/5snu4q
<snip> I love this photo, too. It's funny that Cartier-Bresson was thought of by some as a "street photographer" or as someone who did "reportage", but he (as you said earlier today) was an amazing portraitist and landscapist as well. I think this is my favourite of his landscapes: http://tinyurl.com/3ego8j Surprisingly (to me, at least) "your" photo is the cover photo of the Bill Evans album "The Paris Concert Vol. 1". cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
