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Mainecoonmaniac said:

HCB had lead a brilliant life. Getting off the topic a bit but here's an interview on Charlie Rose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZSZLzGNPBQ

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Not all H.C-B interviews went well particularly when H.C-B couldn't maintain absolute control of events. Here's a gem from Jim Hughes via TOP:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/hcb-the-invisible-man.html

The point is that worthwhile scholarship of H.C-B's life and work has to be based on the few sources not contrived by H.C-B himself. All else tends to be a songbook for his besotted fans.

Maris said:

Not all H.C-B interviews went well particularly when H.C-B couldn't maintain absolute control of events. Here's a gem from Jim Hughes via TOP:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/hcb-the-invisible-man.html

The point is that worthwhile scholarship of H.C-B's life and work has to be based on the few sources not contrived by H.C-B himself. All else tends to be a songbook for his besotted fans.

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Can I take it from your comments that you have zero appreciation of his images? All I can say is that when I met him I found him quite convivial in conversation and he did not object to me taking his photograph. Everybody is allowed to be a complete idiot at some point in their life, as long as they don’t make a habit of it.

miha said:

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photograph...Special/M6-HenriCartier-Bresson1998/index.htm

In his later years he was using his # 1.000.000 M6 Leica. (info from On the other side of the Camera by Arnold Crane).

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I always read that Alfred Eisenstaedt got the one millionth Leica, specially engraved.

chip j said:

Too bad Aperture sucks.

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Wow, I did a check and was a bit shocked. Life in 1948, available everywhere for 35 cents. Inflation adjusted to $3.45 in 2013

Aperture, well good luck finding it. But you can subscribe for $75, I think that is 4 issues, that is about $19 an issue (with worlds better production values than Life magazine I would assume), some really good photography too with a bit of the artsy fartsy stuff on display also. (Just because no one understands you does not mean you are an artist)

For what it is worth my exposure to good photography started in the 50's as a young hick kid growing up in southern Indiana. My great aunt Willa, a very imperious and refined lady, was concerned her 7 year old nephew was not having his horizions expanded enough so she got the family a subscription to The National Geographic. I spent many happy hours with that magazine and the often included maps.

chip j said:

I always read that Alfred Eisenstaedt got the one millionth Leica, specially engraved.

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http://petapixel.com/2013/09/27/one-millionth-leica-modified-nikon-f3-nasa-camera-auction-westlicht/

According to the link above, Eisenstaedt got the 1.000.001 Leica M3.

pen s said:

For what it is worth my exposure to good photography started in the 50's as a young hick kid growing up in southern Indiana. My great aunt Willa, a very imperious and refined lady, was concerned her 7 year old nephew was not having his horizions expanded enough so she got the family a subscription to The National Geographic. I spent many happy hours with that magazine and the often included maps.

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Ah, National Geographic, same here, pictures and maps and adverts for things we couldn't possibly understand in the UK, like why you needed a new Buick every year? It opened new vista's for the imagination, and taught how not to be happy to only know what you know ('who is Ralph Gibson?'), and taught that people are many and varied ('why would anybody spend $28,000....').

Steve

Another view on the Master: http://pindelski.org/Photography/2005/06/15/about-cartier-bresson/