Guest Ming Rider Posted August 23, 2012 Share #1 Â Posted August 23, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Possibly the most famous negative ever exposed. Â To think, this is 'the' negative. Not a copy. Taken all those years ago. Â I wonder how much this would fetch at auction? Â http://vintagecamerastyle.tumblr.com/post/14186158701/henri-cartier-bresson-behind-the-gare-st-lazare Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 23, 2012 Posted August 23, 2012 Hi Guest Ming Rider, Take a look here Could this be the most famous negative of all ?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Michael Hiles Posted August 24, 2012 Share #2 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Happily, it is unlikely ever to be sold. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaques Posted August 24, 2012 Share #3 Â Posted August 24, 2012 I am pretty sure that picture of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda is more famous? Â Apparently he made nothing out of the image- even though it is the most reproduced photograph in history... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoferat Posted August 24, 2012 Share #4 Â Posted August 24, 2012 im pretty sure the most famous has to be neil armstrong on the moon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jip Posted August 24, 2012 Share #5 Â Posted August 24, 2012 I want to see the actual picture of that negative, can someone share? And I don't really understand why it is the most famous negative? Maybe because I'm too young to know the history of this story! PLEASE tell me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpattison Posted August 24, 2012 Share #6  Posted August 24, 2012 Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio  Click 4 times to the right, then view photo details It is famous because it illustrates "the decisive moment" in picture taking. Cartier-Bresson was famous for his street photography where he captured a moment in time that was perfect.  John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted August 24, 2012 Share #7 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Even if he did have to take the same photo half a dozen times Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted August 24, 2012 Share #8 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Capa's D-Day negs must be right up there too, especially since they nearly didn't make it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jip Posted August 24, 2012 Share #9 Â Posted August 24, 2012 I've just looked through his portfolio on the magnum website, seen his seine fotos and his portraits, really nice though how he made so much pictures (as we do all... but) and all now shown on the internet. I especially like the really old ones from the 30's 40's Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted August 24, 2012 Share #10 Â Posted August 24, 2012 And people still think HCB didn't crop his negatives. Well he's done it twice here, once with the scissors and once with the enlarger. Â Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jip Posted August 24, 2012 Share #11 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Yeah because of that piece of wood... haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ming Rider Posted August 24, 2012 Share #12 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Capa's D-Day negs must be right up there too, especially since they nearly didn't make it... Â Yeah, you just can't get good darkroom operatives these days, or even back in those days it would seem. As sackable offences go, that one must be near the top. Â The picture of the G.I. crawling through the water on D-Day. Shot hyperfocally, shutter speed too slow, hand shake, puts you right there. I can almost here the mortars going off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted August 24, 2012 Share #13  Posted August 24, 2012 im pretty sure the most famous has to be neil armstrong on the moon  Was that a negative, or a positive, though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaques Posted August 24, 2012 Share #14  Posted August 24, 2012 che guevara easily trumps neil armstrong on the moon- and Capa's d-day shots.I read it is the most re-produced photographic image in the world... and I don't doubt it. You see it everywhere.  the photographer had some advice that remains germane today:  "Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture." Alberto Korda  http://www.pixiq.com/article/the-most-famous-photograph-in-the-world Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ming Rider Posted August 24, 2012 Share #15  Posted August 24, 2012 im pretty sure the most famous has to be neil armstrong on the moon  An iconic image but easy to shoot on a film set Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ming Rider Posted August 24, 2012 Share #16 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Was that a negative, or a positive, though? Â Taken with a converted HassleBad if my brain cells serve me correctly? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil U Posted August 24, 2012 Share #17 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Taken with a converted HassleBad if my brain cells serve me correctly? Â But they used Ektachrome in it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jip Posted August 24, 2012 Share #18 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Took a look at Robert Capa's nice, really makes you feel you are there. And he certainly had the guts! wow! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith (M) Posted August 24, 2012 Share #19 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Possibly the most famous negative ever exposed.Vintage Camera Style (HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON Behind the Gare St.Lazare...) Â Famous? Certainly. Most famous? Very debatable. Aside from those non-H C-B already mentioned, there are two from the Vietnam war period that make a huge impact (for all the wrong reasons). Â As to H C-B, in terms of 'decisive moment' I prefer his 1932 one in Hyeres, France taken looking down an external spiral staircase as a cyclist whizzes by at the bottom or perhaps the 1938 image of picnickers on the banks of the Seine at Juvisy. Compositionally, I am quite taken by his photo of a typical tree-lined French road taken near Brie in 1968 (page 146 in 'Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Modern Century'. However, in terms of capturing the moment, I much prefer Elliot Erwitt's work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twotone Posted August 24, 2012 Share #20 Â Posted August 24, 2012 Anyone know why my comment was removed? Â Second last one before this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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