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7588. wabbit - 8/4/2004 10:06:41 AM 
Legendary French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the major artists of the 20th century, who used his tiny hand-held 35-millimeter Leica camera to bear humane witness to many of the century's signal events, from the Spanish Civil War to the German occupation of France to the partition of India to the Chinese revolution to the student uprisings of 1968, has died in France, the Ministry of Culture announced today. He was 95.
Cartier-Bresson shot for Life, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar magazines, and his work inspired generations of photographers. Cartier-Bresson became a French national treasure, though he was famously averse to having his own picture taken or to giving interviews.7589. alistairConnor - 8/4/2004 6:08:25 PM 
Can't get many Cartier-Bresson web pages to load this morning. Unsurprisingly. Will try again in a couple of days.
One aspect : He started his artistic life as a painter (and returned to it, over the last 20 years), and came to photography through the influence of the Surrealists. Indeed, he was perhaps the last of the great Surrealists.
Cartier-Bresson and the Surrealists
In 1925, while still at Lhote's studio, Cartier-Bresson began attending gatherings of the Surrealists at the Café La Place Blanche. He met a number of the movement's leading figures. His closest friend was the young poet René Crevel, who later committed suicide. At the age of 17, Cartier-Bresson belonged to a different generation than the founding members of Surrealism. He didn't engage in the debates, but he listened and adopted conceptions that would shape his early artistic life. He said he had been “marked, not by Surrealist painting, but by the conceptions of [André] Breton, [which] satisfied me a great deal; the role of spontaneous expression and of intuition and, above all, the attitude to revolt ... in art but also in life.”
The Surrealists' "destination-less walks of discovery" around the streets of Paris influenced him. Peter Galassi, in his book Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Early Work (Museum of Modern Art, New York), explains: “Alone, the Surrealist wanders the streets without destination but with a premeditated alertness for the unexpected detail that will release a marvellous and compelling reality just beneath the banal surface....
7590. alistairConnor - 8/4/2004 6:08:34 PM “The Surrealists approached photography in the same way that Aragon and Breton ... approached the street: with a voracious appetite for the usual and unusual.... The Surrealists recognised in plain photographic fact an essential quality that had been excluded from prior theories of photographic realism. They saw that ordinary photographs, especially when uprooted from their practical functions, contain a wealth of unintended, unpredictable meanings.” 7591. alistairConnor - 8/4/2004 6:23:05 PM 
Pierre and Marie Curie. There was a sign on the door, enter without knocking. I entered. Before saying hello, I took the shot. One mustn't be too polite.
They have dramatic faces. They knew too much about the reality of the world. It's a terrifying portrait. The position of the hands... I can't look at that photo for too long.
7592. Macnas - 8/4/2004 7:14:05 PM 
I think I actually know this place, its off rue de rivoli I think.
7593. wabbit - 8/21/2004 11:46:39 PM Neato has this in News Message # 3589 in thread 138:
Armed men stormed into an art museum Sunday, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole Edvard Munch's famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" before the eyes of stunned museum-goers.
The thieves yanked the paintings off the walls of Oslo's Munch museum and loaded them into a waiting car outside, said a witness, French radio producer Francois Castang.
Police spokeswoman Hilde Walsoe said the two or three armed men threatened a museum employee with a handgun to give them the two paintings, including "The Scream" - Munch's famed depiction of an anguished figure with its head in its hands. 7594. anomie - 8/28/2004 5:32:47 AM WOW,
Did you get that D70? Should I?
Help me prioritize:
D70
New laptop
LCD TV
really, though. How's it working out. And do I need the 18mm lens. I have a 24mm. 7595. anomie - 8/28/2004 5:34:43 AM I was doing okay because no one had it in stock. I was relaxed. Then I saw it on the shelf while I was looking at new laptops. My knees almost gave out. 7596. anomie - 8/28/2004 5:58:20 AM Without listening to media much, I've discovered several artists that I really like. Problem is, I think it was too much serendipity and not enough quality bubbling to the top. So here's my list of artists you absolutely must check out. What's yours?
Piano:
Keith Jarrett
Bob James
Guitar:
Earl Klugh
Peter White
General:
Cool Klugh/James
Acoustic Alchemey: All
Ottmar Leibert: Neuaveau Flamingo
7597. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/28/2004 9:30:13 AM 7594. anomie - 8/29/2004 4:32:47 AM
WOW,
Did you get that D70? Should I?
Anomie- It's the best camera I've ever owned--the instruction manual is a graduate level course, but the camera can take care of itself and adapt to any situation--utterly miraculous technology . . . with interchangeable lenses.
This is the best price around if you don't let their over-aggresive sales staff talk you into anything else . . .
7598. anomie - 9/5/2004 4:56:40 AM WOW,
Thanks. I see it comes with an 18mm zoom lens for $1299.00. That's about 300 for the lens. Did you get the lens? 7599. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/5/2004 6:38:52 AM No anomie, don't let them talk you into getting their lens package. Keep an eye on their price for the body only and don't pay more than $750 for it. Shop around for the same lens and get the filters at a place like Ritz Camera.
The sales staff are incredibly obnoxious and they will try to talk you into other items. I've also seen the D70 body on sale for as low as $575. It's now on sale for $705 Kit with the 18 - 70 mm macro lens.
A good deal (provided it's the Nikon lens and not another after market product) Tell them to shove their "Recommended Accessories." Be adamant and don't budge! 7600. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/5/2004 6:41:32 AM You can always get an extra battery or data storage and transfer cards at Best Buy for reasonable prices. 7601. KuligintheHooligan - 9/5/2004 6:42:58 AM I always buy those sorts of things on the Net. Best Buy marks them up entirely too much. 7602. anomie - 9/5/2004 7:17:10 AM Wow! WOW. Thanks. I had no idea you could get them so cheap. New Nikons aren't usually discounted I thought. I may not wait.
I have a 24-70 Tamron, which will give me about 35mm on the D70. I also have some d-series lenses and some older ones. If I could find the body for 750, I'm sold.
Kuligin. I'll check your source. Thanks. 7603. wonkers2 - 9/5/2004 11:06:54 AM I didn't look at the Nikon, but I'm very happy with my Canon digital Rebel. 7604. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/5/2004 11:37:05 AM Good camera, but I have Nikon lenses that wouldn't fit a Canon.
7605. alistairconnor - 9/5/2004 4:39:46 PM I need to get the Canon EOS electronic, with a 20 to 70mm lens. I already have a Canon 70-300mm zoom on my old-fashioned chemical camera, that I never use these days... I took it away on holiday, and found it very difficult to take any pictures with that lens - it used to do everything I wanted, now I can't get far enough away to take any pictures. My eye been ruined by years of snapshotting with a little Kodak digital.
What's more, the Canon had a film in it that must have been sitting there for a couple of years -- it turned out to be Ektachrome, so I'll have slides of my silly holiday snaps. 7606. anomie - 9/5/2004 5:59:30 PM I'd be curious to know how the slides turn out after all that time. 7607. anomie - 9/5/2004 6:02:37 PM Wonks, I'm stuck with Nikon lenses too. Otherwise the Rebel would have been fine for me. It's a good buy and I think takes a large variety of Cannon lenses - right?
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