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The exhibit Scrapbook is over from the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and opened at the ICP in New York City last Friday. It is open until April 29. I am definitely going to see this! See the link below for details.
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2189209/k.68AB/Henri_CartierBresson.htm
Please feel free to report your impressions.
shaaktiman
01-24-2007, 17:45
Awesome! Thanks. Going tomorrow.
And Stephen Shore in May. Thanks for the HU, Peter. I will be going too.
Stephen Shore should be awesome. I bought his book last year. When I heard his exhibit was going to be in Chicago the same weak I was leaving there I was disappointed. But now that he's coming to New York. All is well.
The HCB exhibit should be good. I plain forgot about it. Even though I passed by there last week wondering when they were going to reopen. Truth be told. I never really did care for HCB's work. It's good but, it just never struck me. But regardless, it's a must see.
Bump.
Maybe the members in NY want to make an RFF meet from this?
merciful
01-25-2007, 16:30
Aren't assemblies of more than five people viewed with suspicion by the NYPD and Homeland Security now?
Wish I could go to that show.
Bump.
Maybe the members in NY want to make an RFF meet from this?
No idea. That's too bad if it were true.
I went today. It was really good stuff. Leica was mentioned twice. The book of the exhibit is $85. I want it. But not that much.
I went today. It was really good stuff. Leica was mentioned twice. The book of the exhibit is $85. I want it. But not that much.
Amazon has it for $53.
How big were the prints on exhibit?
Aren't assemblies of more than five people viewed with suspicion by the NYPD and Homeland Security now?
He's kidding, girls. I was there over New Year's Eve weekend, and I hardly got cudgelled at all.
Subway's full of cops and army reserve call-outs, though. Stick to the taxicabs.
Wish I could go to that show.
Yeah. No kidding.
(Thinks wistfully of the Greyhound bus station...)
Never mind... I found it. Looks like the prints are really small. I can just imagine straining to look at them with the weekend crowd. :(
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/culture/20070119-Cartier-Bresson.html
The exhibit Scrapbook is over from the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and opened at the ICP in New York City last Friday. It is open until April 29. I am definitely going to see this! See the link below for details.
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2189209/k.68AB/Henri_CartierBresson.htm
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My office is across the street from ICP and I just spent an hour in there. There are 300 HCB photos, most 4x5 inches with not much light. Some are larger. It is a wonderful exhibit but very hard work and will require a few re-visits. There is also a film he did discussing his photographs. With humility, he talks about the decisive moment and with perserverance he is there at the right moment. He also talks about the ones he lost because the decisive moment was after he clicked and did not have time to rewind. The film may be available sometime later this year. If interested, the Scrapbook is for sale for $80 and is an easier way to see the exhibition (better light, get closer). In a not-so-good-Bresson fashion I took a photo of ICP out of my office window (attached). The website for ICP (and Scrapbook) is icp.org.
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The Scrapbook is out of stock at Amazon USA (in fact it is due for printing in March 2007 [?]) but available from Amazon UK for the very reasonable price of £29.70. I ordered one a couple of days ago to look at before I see the exhibit.
amateriat
01-25-2007, 19:15
I mentioned this exhibit about a week back in another thread. And, yes, it would be mad-cool to meet up with a few other "area" RFf folk.
FYI/Trivia Dept.: ICP's exhibit space was formerly occupied by Eastman Kodak as exhibition space (their offices were in the adjacent building as well, until the mid-to-late 80s, if I'm not mistaken).
- Barrett
The Scrapbook is out of stock at Amazon USA (in fact it is due for printing in March 2007 [?]) but available from Amazon UK for the very reasonable price of £29.70. I ordered one a couple of days ago to look at before I see the exhibit.
It said "In Stock" Peter, and I ordered one. The notice I received said it will ship on Monday. I'm curious about the printing date, too. Let's see if it comes next week.
Hmmm. When I ordered one from Amazon it came up with a warning on the web page that there was no stock. That was Monday or Tuesday of this week. So then I went to Amazon UK and ordered the book and also found out that they had found a rugby book for me that is discontinued. So I have some good reading coming up... :D
The book arrived today. I was surprised it came so quickly. Bigger and heavier than I thought. I just glossed over it, and it looks like it will make for hours of good reading. The photos are nicely reproduced, in sizes identical to the original, they say. Thanks again for the HU on the exhibit, Peter.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to head over next time I'm in the city. I also just ordered Scrapbook from amazon uk, thanks for spotting that. I didn't know they had reprinted it. It's been a big week for photography books for me. I grabbed Larry Fink's Runway and there's an enormous gorgeous fashion photog put out by Dolce & Gabbana that will be inbound too.
But HCB is a huge influence on me. Some of his shots make my heart hurt they're so perfect. Off the top of my head there's that Giacometti in the rain shot, a portrait of Martine Franck, and a portrait of capote that are just amazing.
Some of his shots make my heart hurt they're so perfect. Off the top of my head there's that Giacometti in the rain shot...
Heh. A dollar postcard of that's been tacked to my kitchen cork-board since the dawn of recorded time.
The book arrived today.Dammit mine hasn't arrived yet. :( Maybe I was a bit too hasty ordering from elsewhere but I did get an out of stock notice. Anyway it sounds good and I'm looking forward to getting mine. :) I have a childhood friend from Europe visiting NYC in April and that's when I'll visit the ICP as well I think.
Can't wait to see the show in person.
Here is a slideshow on Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2158859/
That slate article was great. I think I saw one in nytimes recently too.
My copy of Scrapbook (from UK amazon) finally arrived today. It's great. I love the display of the uncropped "decisive moment" puddle photograph. I'm often nervous about cropping, feeling like somehow I failed to frame it correctly (especially in street stuff), but this makes me feel a lot better. It looks like a great book, and the commentary is very readable and informative.
Mine arrived a while back and I haven't been able to look at it properly yet but I already have a couple of HCB books and I'm glad to see stuff in the Scrapbook that is not in the others.
lifevicarious
02-09-2007, 12:06
I went to this exhibit a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was great. My favorite thing about it was seeing the shots that weren't as great. Often you would see two or three different angles of the shot that is now famous. It's good to know that many of the shots that HCB took were, just like many of ours, completely normal and not great masterpieces. I actually felt better about my own photography after having seen the exhibit.
Oh, and the DVD they play there is really nice. They don't sell it there but am looking forward to getting it. It's basically a simple slide show but the narration by HCB is really interesting.
If any NYC folks decide to meet up, let me know. It's defintiely worth seeing again. And remember, it's open late on Friday's and by donation after 5!
I'm gonna try and go in March.
amateriat
02-19-2007, 19:43
I finally went yesterday (Sunday). Absolutely worth it. Can't put it into words right now (I know...if not now, when?). If you can somehow manage it, definitely go.
- Barrett
Thanks.
Logistics questions for those who've been... Can I walk around with a camera in there? Does the venue have mandatory coat-check and bag-check?
Flyfisher Tom
02-20-2007, 01:57
There is also a film he did discussing his photographs. With humility, he talks about the decisive moment and with perserverance he is there at the right moment. He also talks about the ones he lost because the decisive moment was after he clicked and did not have time to rewind. The film may be available sometime later this year.
Do you know if the film was "The Impassioned Eye" or an entirely new film/documentary?
thanks,
amateriat
02-20-2007, 06:53
Thanks.
Logistics questions for those who've been... Can I walk around with a camera in there? Does the venue have mandatory coat-check and bag-check?
Yes, you can carry a camera in, but you can't use it, with or without flash. Same deal with cell phones. Coat/bag check is optional for the exhibit area; bag-check mandatory for the ICP store.
- Barrett
Thank you, sir. That helps me plan my little raid very nicely. I loathe leaving my bag & camera in cloakrooms.
stephen.s1
02-21-2007, 15:14
um... guess so. Ya gotta check your bag/coat. No prob with cameras. At least with those of the M persuasion...;)
http://soarglide.smugmug.com/photos/129888783-L.jpgThanks.
Logistics questions for those who've been... Can I walk around with a camera in there? Does the venue have mandatory coat-check and bag-check?
amateriat
02-21-2007, 15:38
um... guess so. Ya gotta check your bag/coat. No prob with cameras. At least with those of the M persuasion...;)
http://soarglide.smugmug.com/photos/129888783-L.jpg
Ah...so you weren't the dude I saw there last Sunday with the honkin' big, be-zoomed 1Ds...
If you're stealthy, I guess you can get away with taking a snap or two, but I'd just be careful. And, absoluitely shut that phone ringer off!
- Barrett
stephen.s1
02-21-2007, 16:08
I've had that disconnected from all my Leicas... :)
Link to a recent thread on the exhibit at PN:
Cartier-Bresson & Munkacsi at ICP in New York (http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00JvIU)
Thank you, mr_n.
Got my travel bookings confirmed earlier today. Going in March. Will report findings.
Um, where's that Leica gallery they allude to in that thread?
amateriat
02-22-2007, 21:07
Thank you, mr_n.
Got my travel bookings confirmed earlier today. Going in March. Will report findings.
Um, where's that Leica gallery they allude to in that thread?
Here:
http://www.leica-camera.us/culture/galeries/gallery_new_york/
- Barrett
Damn! I was five blocks from there two months ago!
Added to my hit list. Thank 'ee.
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With luck and fair winds, I'll see it this weekend.
Anybody need any silver halide from the museum shop? Couple boxes of shadows? Some Zone III?
amateriat
03-15-2007, 19:20
With luck and fair winds, I'll see it this weekend.
Anybody need any silver halide from the museum shop? Couple boxes of shadows? Some Zone III? PM me when you hit town. I have a somewhat full plate this weekend, but you never know.:)
- Barrett
Was there @March 11th. Wonderful exhibition letting you somehow lurk into HCB's kitchen. Very pleasant show, the movie is great too, his voice adds to the atmosphere.
BTW, I didn't notice, that pictures were hang too low as folks here pointed out, maybe because I'm only 1.8 meters tall :)
The Munkacsi's part was a big surprise for me, and was very good too.
Highly recommended.
stephen.s1
03-17-2007, 11:09
Magus.. sorry for the delay. Just saw your post a few mins ago.
TriX/D76. CV 40mm 1.4. Thanks.
Aside: HCB scrapbook from Amazon, less than $60 inc shipping. A very nice printing and binding job.
PM me when you hit town. I have a somewhat full plate this weekend, but you never know.
Very gracious of you, sir. Would have done so had I seen your post while I was there, but I had no comms whatsoever. Hotel was a WiFi blackout zone. Laptop served as ballast.
Saw the show. Saw everything they had.
The Cartier-Bresson exhibit was...good, content-wise. Almost totally spoiled by how it was hung, though; I'm 5'-8" or thereabouts, and I had to stoop to see the lower panels. Real pain in the neck. The curator should be shouted at, in public. (If someone gets me his/her name, I'll make an appointment and do it.) Dumb-headedness.
The best parts of it, for me, were seeing a couple of familiar pictures in the flesh, and the 18-minute film. The film was just killer. Wonderful little insights, and pictures, lots of pictures, bright and big enough to see.
Trawled the rest of the pictures they had up, while I was there:
The big platinum portraits in the café downstairs... they're okay, a little soft in the eyes, but go, go, GO to see the portrait of Cindy Sherman. It's just gorgeous. I wanted to kiss it. I wanted to steal it.
The Louise Brooks exhibit turned my crank, for its plain good high-contrast aesthetic. My kind of glamour shots.
The "New Acquisitions" alcove, off to one side in the basement... There's a GREAT Ralph Meatyard picture of a little kid. Not masked; he doesn't have to be. Kudos to whomever donated or decided to buy that print. Monster shot.
Back upstairs...the Martin Munkacsi exhibit simply blew my freakin' mind. His name was familiar, but I couldn't have described a picture. Oh, boy. I sure can now. The picture of the "motorcyclist going through the puddle" alone was worth my trip to Manhattan. The rest was, like, bonus lottery jackpot winnings. Holy Crap. This man had an eye, for real. I bought the 65-dollar book, and giggled at the bargain I was getting.
IF you are within easy striking distance of midtown Manhattan, and have never been to this place before, go. Go now. Twelve bucks, well spent.
amateriat
03-18-2007, 19:52
Biggles: Sorry we couldn't meet up, but no biggie: I'm glad you made the exhibit, which is a biggie.
I agree that the HCB exhibit could've been mounted "a bit higher" (BTW, we're both identical in height), but was happy to see it, and need to go back (I arrived, with sig. other and friends, around 4 in the afternoon; to their credit, ICP personnel didn't kick us out until sometime after 6, even though they officially close at 5). This is a must-see, quibbles aside. And the film (more a slide-show-with-commentary) is priceless for Bresson's observations and asides, and some of the quotes he made late in life – misinterpreted, IMO, as dissing photography, are now better understood).
Munkacsi...what you said. Beautiful, funny, ominous (a shot of a youthful Adolf Hitler...you have to see it, I can't do it justice). You can feel what got Henri so wound up to pick up a camera himself.
Saw the Cindy Sherman portrait as well. You put it best.
Louise Brooks? I'd elaborate (gladly), but the prose might be too purple for the room, if you get my drift...
Worth the trip and the twelve bucks, folks. And then some.
- Barrett
Joe Mondello
03-18-2007, 20:04
Back upstairs...the Martin Munkacsi exhibit simply blew my freakin' mind. His name was familiar, but I couldn't have described a picture. Oh, boy. I sure can now. The picture of the "motorcyclist going through the puddle" alone was worth my trip to Manhattan. The rest was, like, bonus lottery jackpot winnings. Holy Crap. This man had an eye, for real. I bought the 65-dollar book, and giggled at the bargain I was getting.
Glad you mentioned the Munkacsi exhibit. What a great surprise! The image of the woman with the umbrella jumping over the puddle is a trip.
It really was like getting 2 for 1!
And yes the scores of HC-B 4x5s hung at waist level (!) had me wishing for a magnifying glass, better light and a taller curator!
BTW, I am a member of ICP which affords free admission to the exhibits, discounts on the store and on classes across the street at the school.
Also there is a terrific lecture series on Wed nights that has to be the best bargain in town. $155 for 10 lectures by working photographers. Plus there is a terrific photography library at the school which members can use.
Here's a link to the current lecture series info . . .
http://shopping.icp.org/school/continuing/course.html?category_id=&product_id=26186
This exhibit ends today! Get there if you can! I agree with most of the above comments - this is a wonderful exhibition and I've ordered the Munkacsi book...
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