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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (new book)

LR admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:10:14 +0000

With the ongoing Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition in New York, the Museum of Modern Art published also a new book “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century”, now available at Amazon:

Links for international readers: Amazon UK | Amazon Germany | Amazon France | Amazon Canada | Amazon Japan

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If you are in New York

LR admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:15:39 +0000

Starting tomorrow, there will be an exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York – Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century.

“Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book”

The exhibitions will be running from April 11 – June 28, 2010.

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Leica SIS opening in Palm Beach with Ann Curry

LR admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:31:33 +0000

Those videos are from last night – sorry about my shaking hands:

I did not mean to cut the speech of the President of Leica US Roger Horn – YouTube allows only 10 minutes videos. I will upload the full speech later on.

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Leica photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson

LR admin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:00:28 +0000

Today, 101 years ago, Henri Cartier-Bresson was born. He was consider to be the father of modern photojournalism and of course a Leica user (he used a normal 50mm lens).

Magnum Henri Cartier-BressonÂ slideshow available here.

Henri Cartier-Bresson videos:

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Garry Winogrand videos

LR admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:30:04 +0000

Sorry, the video is in German – I could not find the original English version (you can still hear the English version):

A reader just found another video – in English:

Garry Winogrand @ Wikipedia

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Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad (video)

LR admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:32:52 +0000

Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad. from leica camera on Vimeo.

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Sebastiao Salgado: A Conversation

LR admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:00:06 +0000

Who is Sebastiao Salgado? I will just say that his Leica M7 camera set is currently selling on ebay forÂ¬â€ US $130,680.00:

“Salgado uses three Leica cameras. Most of the time he uses 28mm, 35mm and 60mm lenses (one for each camera body). He uses black-and-white Tri-X film. In low-light situations and indoors he uses T-Max 3200 film, which precludes the need for flash. He does not develop his own film but has a friend do it for him. He does most of his own printing but sometimes calls upon friends to help in this darkroom work also” (source).

Some of his workÂ¬â€ can be seen here. Here are some slideshows:

Via Imaginginsider

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Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

LR admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:00:16 +0000

Helen Levitt grew up in Brooklyn. Dropping out of high school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children’s street culture of the time. She purchased a Leica camera and began to photograph these works as well as the children who made them. The resulting photographs were ultimately published in 1987 as In The Street: chalk drawings and messages, New York City 1938â€šÃ„Ã¬1948.

She associated with Walker Evans in 1938 and 1939. In 1943 Edward Steichen curated her first solo exhibition “Helen Levitt: Photographs of Children” at the Museum of Modern Art. She subsequently began to find press work as a documentary photographer.

In 1959 and 1960, Levitt received two Guggenheim Foundation grants to take color photographs on the streets of New York, and she returned to still photography. In 1965 she published her first major collection, A Way of Seeing. Much of her work in color from the 1960s was stolen in a 1970 burglary of her East 13th Street apartment. The remaining photos, and others taken in the following years, can be seen in the 2005 book Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt. In 1976 she was a Photography Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photo from the book "The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt"

Photos source: Amazon

In the late 1940s Levitt made two documentary films with Janice Loeb and James Agee: In the Street (1948) and The Quiet One (1948). Levitt, along with Loeb and Sidney Meyers, received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of The Quiet One. Levitt was active in film making for nearly 25 years; her final film credit is as an editor for John Cohen’s documentary The End of an Old Song (1972). Levitt’s other film credits include the cinematography on The Savage Eye (1960), which was produced by Ben Maddow, Meyers, and Joseph Strick, and also as an assistant director for Strick and Maddow’s film version of Genet’s play The Balcony (1963). In her biographical essay, Maria Hambourg writes that Levitt, “has all but disinherited this part of her work.”

She remained active as a photographer for nearly 70 years and lived in New York City. New York’s “visual poet laureate” was notoriously private and publicity shy.

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More books from/for Helen Levitt

Another article about Helen Levitt from the Economist

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