Remember HCB!

[atournas]

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I was passing by the house and, since this year is a decade without Henri Cartier-Bresson, I thought I should pay a small tribute.

 

Paul

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[Michael Hiles]

Isn't this interesting! Many thanks.

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[FrozenInTime]

How long did you wait - hoping two old ladies would walk by

[atournas]

How long did you wait - hoping two old ladies would walk by

 

To tell you the truth, I did wait in hope the very first time I visited the street and spotted the house, many years ago. This time, no; although I attempted a second shot with a young couple passing, but it didn't work.

 

Paul

[Doc Henry]

I was passing by the house and, since this year is a decade without Henri Cartier-Bresson, I thought I should pay a small tribute.

 

Paul

Paul , nice picture, is't with film ?

 

My last visit at Montparnasse :

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Best

Henry

[atournas]

Paul , nice picture, is't with film ?

Henry

 

T-Max 100, some PS retouching on a low res scan.

 

Paul

[alun]

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How extraordinary. The locations in HC-B's pictures have entered a kind of mythical world, I always feel -- or perhaps what I mean is they have become a kind of lingua franca. One forgets they are real places -- and still exist, albeit without the master at hand to capture those fleeting split seconds.... A suitable commemoration.

[M9reno]

This was my own feeble attempt, taken in early 2013, shamefully just developed last night!

 

Leica I (1929), Elmar 50 f/3.5 (HP5+ pushed to ISO 800).

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[atournas]

This was my own feeble attempt, taken in early 2013, shamefully just developed last night!

 

Thanks for contributing to the thread, Al. If only you could have waited for another forty, say, years to shoot the picture, you might have come up with an interesting alternative to HCB's (ha, ha).

[M9reno]

Paul, I think it's interesting to spot the changes. Presumably you shot after me (February 2013), and the tree stump had been replaced with a young tree, the walls re-painted, and then re-covered with new grafitti. How long HCB had to wait for those two perfect old ladies, one directly below each caryatid, and alternating in front of a dark and light door, I can't imagine... or maybe he didn't wait - that's what eats me up.

[schmolinski]

Sorry to ask, unfortunately I don't know what picture of HCB you are talking about.

Would you mind to share a link to the original here?

Thanks

[atournas]

Sorry to ask, unfortunately I don't know what picture of HCB you are talking about.

Would you mind to share a link to the original here?

Thanks

For example, try Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographs by Marian Froehlich | Take Great Pictures and look down the page for Athens, 1953.

 

Paul

[atournas]

Paul, I think it's interesting to spot the changes. [...] the walls re-painted [...[. How long HCB had to wait for those two perfect old ladies, one directly below each caryatid, and alternating in front of a dark and light door, I can't imagine... or maybe he didn't wait - that's what eats me up.

 

In fact, the two statues had a different color some years ago; it was a washed-out "brick" color. I have it on a slide which I may try to find some time. More interestingly, though, is a rumor occasionally surfaced that HCB had deliberately asked the two women to pass under the statues. I don't believe that, but the history of photography is full of such cases--Doisneau, Brandt, to recall a few.

 

Paul

[schmolinski]

Apostolos, thanks for the link. Except one picture (man with in the trees) the others I've never seen...

[Bill W]

I would love to see other photos taken by forum members of this just to compare the changes over time. These are very interesting.

[M9reno]

This is interesting:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@37.979922,23.719543,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sqctfhLoj3lDgRDM4XNgDpA!2e0!5s20110801T000000

 

Not only does it give the address in Athens, in case people reading this want to visit (and photograph) the spot, but it also allows using the timeline function at the top of the page to see the different versions of the street image taken by Google, from 2009 to 2011. The tree, a stump in my picture, replaced by a young tree in Paul's, is there in 2011.

[atournas]

This is interesting:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@37.979922,23.719543,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sqctfhLoj3lDgRDM4XNgDpA!2e0!5s20110801T000000

 

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Al, thanks a lot for the link, that's very interesting. Come to think of it again, it might be that the statues were never painted, as I mentioned in a previous post of mine--it was the background wall.

 

Paul

Edited February 4, 2015 by atournas

[allamande]

Fascinating to look at the timeline and imagine what it'll be like in a few years.

No tree in HCB's time, then a failed tree, then...a young one growing now, leading to the statues blocked by the mature tree in a few years...

Or, maybe someone will see to it that the tree doesn't grow to maturity

 

Ece

[leicatraveller]

i think it's hard to take photos of such "iconic place" that were background of one of the most famous photos of HCB

anyway just for curiosity, in which part of Athen is this place? i was in athen but i didn't see

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[M9reno]

i think it's hard to take photos of such "iconic place" that were background of one of the most famous photos of HCB

anyway just for curiosity, in which part of Athen is this place? i was in athen but i didn't see

 

The address is Ag. Asomaton Street. If you visit the ancient suburb/cemetery of Kerameikos, it is just a couple of blocks to the north.

 

Please see the link in my previous post above for a Google Earth link.