> > > > > > Not sure how many follow petapixel, but for those interested... > > > http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/22/an-interview-with-henri- > cartier- > > bresson-the-father-of-photojournalism/ > > > > I'm waiting to hear BobW's critique. ]'-) > > > Godfrey >
I've just watched the first half hour of it and I'll watch the rest later, simply because it's interested to see and hear HCB himself. But that interviewer is dreadful. He talks to HCB in the patronising way a child talks to a gaga grandparent, almost always finishing with closed questions. There's no sense of an open conversation taking place between 2 intelligent people who share an interest, and the interviewer just seems to want Cartier-Bresson to rehash stuff that he's said a million times before. Cartier-Bresson's Frenchness and disdain for the conventions of TV seem to be completely beyond the experience or understanding of the interviewer. And he keeps trying to corner him into talking about his status, as if anyone from a background like HCB's is going to sit there and say 'Yes, I'm the greatest photographer of the age and an artist on a par with Matisse and Picasso'. Fur fecks' sake, what a wasted opportunity. B > I haven't had time to watch it yet. I was distracted by this related > story: > <http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/19/a-glimpse-behind-the-gare-st- > lazare-in- > google-street-view/> > > I couldn't resist going there myself a couple of years ago: > <http://www.web-options.com/Paris2010/content/L1000216_large.html> > > <http://www.web-options.com/Paris2010/content/L1000218_large.html> > > B > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
