The Impassioned Eye - Henri Cartier Bresson

[boskysquelch]

I give up.

Who was it?

I cn't bleddhi remember...but I will find out..

 

[Bernie Gunther]

There was a fuss about whether Capa's 'Falling Solider' was a fake or not, started by some British spy journalist. The picture above doesn't quite look like Capa's though, has a different outline. Here's the Capa one.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I knew that it wasn't the Capa photograph. We had a discussion about that a while ago to which I contributed at length. It was not a fake.

I am wondering if the picture Boskysquelch has posted is one purporting to be of someone jumping to their death at the time of the 1929 Wall Street Crash. A search on the internet has not come up with anything though yet. We will just have to wait and see what he says.

 

[boskysquelch]

I've looked on and off but cannot find it either..when and if I do I will be sure to post.

 

[Descartes]

Hocus Eye,

The snag is the time and distance between film manufacture and retail outlet, purchase and use, we are discussing 1932.

Your reasons are equally creditable but ... both are suppositions, we can offer alternative arguments to suit a number of reasonable scenarios.

The negative has, as far as I know never been available for inspection, another anomaly.

 

[Firky]

There was a fuss about whether Capa's 'Falling Solider' was a fake or not, started by some British spy journalist. The picture above doesn't quite look like Capa's though, has a different outline. Here's the Capa one.

I reckon that is the real thing, capa was quite famous for getting close to bullets.

 

[boskysquelch]

I reckon that is the real thing, capa was quite famous for getting close to bullets.

and landmines iirc.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

He just wanted to "take a closer look". Capa was an amazing photo journalist. His writing to accompany the pictures was also excellent. His report of the D Day landing gives a hard realistic record of his experiences at the battlefront.

 

[editor]

Some nice examples of Cartier Bresson's work in this feature:
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Finding a Decisive Moment for The Waiting Stage - Luminous Landscape

 

[editor]

Interesting analysis here. Blimey, he was good!