jquimby Posted February 22, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) In case any of you are interested here is an hour long interview with one of Leica's most celebrated users, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Â StumbleVideo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_tanaka Posted February 22, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Thank you so much for this link. Fascinating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jquimby Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share #3 Â Posted February 22, 2007 i loved the part where he was describing how Cappa would take the money coming into Magnum and go out and gamble on the horses... how great is that! Â Its really horrible that Cappa died so early in life from a landmine. I can't even image the stories he could tell... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerimager Posted February 22, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted February 22, 2007 thanks very much Joe. a wonderful watch and learn, an amazing human being and artist. ....Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogopix Posted February 22, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted February 22, 2007 ok i give up how do you view it? it doesnt startt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venkman Posted February 22, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted February 22, 2007 I am certain that this is a great video, but I fail to see how it has anything to do with digital photography? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted February 22, 2007 Share #7  Posted February 22, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) In case any of you are interested here is an hour long interview with one of Leica's most celebrated users, Henri Cartier-Bresson. StumbleVideo  Fascinating...thanks for the input Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fotomiguel Posted February 22, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Great!! Thank you for sharing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted February 22, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted February 22, 2007 I am certain that this is a great video, but I fail to see how it has anything to do with digital photography? Â if you look at the numbers, the only forum that has a significant number of watchers, it is the digital forum. Therefore Dirk, if you want to get heard or noticed, that is where you have to post, correct or not. Â After listening to the interview, I was looking at a huge book of Magnum photos I have, many taken by Cartier-Bresson, it strikes me how close in he gets a lot of the time. I wonder if nowadays, when everyone is wandering around with a compact digital camera, you could get people to accept being photographed from such a close distance and certainly appear as natural as they are in his photos. Maybe using a M Leica is part of the secret - I will give it a go. Perhaps it marks you out as a photographer rather than a tourist. Â When in Morocco over the New Year, I found many people quite reluctant to be taken. If you asked, they often said no or asked for money. If you did not ask, they turned away or scowled. Perhaps I am a bit over-sensitive to be a good "person photographer" - buildings, inanimate objects and scenery are much easier to deal with. Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bernd Banken Posted February 22, 2007 Share #10 Â Posted February 22, 2007 Joe, Â thank you very much for this link. HCB was my hero in terms of Photography and Robert Capa. Â Bernd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venkman Posted February 22, 2007 Share #11  Posted February 22, 2007 if you look at the numbers, the only forum that has a significant number of watchers, it is the digital forum. Therefore Dirk, if you want to get heard or noticed, that is where you have to post, correct or not.[..]  Wilson,  why don't we ask the admins to scrap the different forums altogether and post all in one then? Don't get me wrong, I actually wouldn't mind much, but I noticed a tendency to simply post in "digi" since most people read here anyway. The same moment, you potentially deny some die hard film users the link to that video, cause we all know, they'd never look in here  But enough of that, since the majority seems not to be bothered. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jquimby Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share #12  Posted February 23, 2007 so as not to start another thread that is complete unrelated to digital i thought i would add to this one, here is a shorter video with Elliott Erwitt from Visa pour l'image   Photographie | Rencontre avec Elliott Erwitt | Le "Best-of" | Vide pour l'image Perpignan 2006 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted February 23, 2007 Share #13  Posted February 23, 2007 oki give up how do you view it? it doesnt startt  OK I give up too. How do you view it? It doesn't start. I'm on a Mac. Rarely get viewing/connecting problems.  ................Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted February 23, 2007 Share #14  Posted February 23, 2007 OKI give up too. How do you view it? It doesn't start. I'm on a Mac. Rarely get viewing/connecting problems.  ................Chris  Delighted that at last something is working for me but sad that others are having problems - makes a change. Chris, it plays fine for me in Firefox v2.0.0.1 I have also got the latest version of Quicktime (in my case pro), Flashplayer and Shockwave installed. I have the latest free version of RealPlayer for Mac. Finally I have Flip4mac to play Windows media. All of the foregoing apart from Quicktime pro are free. I often have no idea which player is actually running inside Firefox but I seem to be able to play virtually all internet movie formats.  Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted February 23, 2007 Share #15 Â Posted February 23, 2007 Wilson - Thanks for trying. It might be the curse of Henri because he was never one of my favourite photographers, I'll go to the Elliot Erwitt connection instead. Shame though. Â .....................Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jquimby Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share #16 Â Posted February 23, 2007 chris, i have a similar setup as mentioned above, mac running firefox 2.0.0.1 it also worked on the latest version of safari as well. The Cartier-Bresson video is quite large and it may take some time to buffer. Here is another link, actually the embedded link to the video directly from google. Â http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4074157481455007235 Â maybe that will work. otherwise make sure you have the latest flash based player Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted February 23, 2007 Share #17  Posted February 23, 2007 ......maybe that will work......r  Joe - Now that link works fine in Safari. Thanks very much, I'm sure I will greatly enjoy it.  ................Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJL Posted February 23, 2007 Share #18  Posted February 23, 2007 A worthwhile review of the interview can be found on Mike Johnston's site:  The Online Photographer  I enjoyed his "one hand clapping" shot at "Clueless Charlie".....worth a smile or two.  LJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted February 24, 2007 Share #19 Â Posted February 24, 2007 Well, having viewed it I can understand Mike Johnston's frustrations. I have no idea who Charlie Rose is, but he seemed clearly out of his depth with photography and lazily retreated to the safe ground of asking Henri what he thought of this or that famous subject in his pictures. The oft repeated proclamation by Cartier Bresson that he was an anarchist was allowed to drift without challenge or dissection of any image to find that anarchism in his work. Â Cartier Bresson has rather avoided publicity and the damned shame is that this interview was an opportunity wasted. Perhaps Mr. Rose moves in the celebrity world where it is considered impolite to ask questions any deeper than 'what's your favourite colour'? However, I would love to have heard an interviewer getting forensic with the work surrounding them, and engaging Cartier Bresson's photographic intelligence. Instead; we were fobbed of with a CV-notch that-will-do production. The history of photography deserves better, and so does the memory of Henri Cartier Bresson. I watched it all, regardless. Â ..........................Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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