Thanks ... I've downloaded the video from YouTube and have it on the iPad now. I'll watch it when I get a chance. :-)
G On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > > 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. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
