[LRflex] HCB exhibit in Paris Sepcial for Richard.

  • From: Bille Xavier F. <hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 15:50:11 +0100

Good Day Flexers, 
 
I just went there, just for the sake of enjoying the first days of fair weather 
in Paris:
 
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There it was, HCB and his Leica IIIg:
 
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The exhibit proved to be popular, had to queue for 70 yards:
 
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Then, inside the Beaubourg  Center, it has not changed much since I went there 
30 years ago:
 
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Beaubourg is a tall building  and much of Paris is visible, here MontMartre:
 
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Another Boring Queue, when I left, it was estimated to 2 Hours to see the 
exhibit:
 
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And at last, the exhibition, of course many pictures (a thousand?) but I liked 
to see his pre-journalism picture, a few of them when  stationed in Ivory 
Coast, HCB bought his Leica after his return from Africa:
 
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The comment, hand written with a pencil says "Côte d'Ivoire, passage de la 
Barre". He obviously embarked with fishermen on the Atlantic sea. Close to the 
shore there is this turmoil of waves, the guys rowing needs all efforts to pass 
through this point. We had the same in Senegal, when I was a child.
 
Many pictures came from archives of HCB's employer, the Magnum Agency, however, 
there or there some pictures were coming from his own private archive. The guy 
was experimenting a lot. On contact sheet, often there is just one image 
retained of a roll. But most images were graphics. Over the years, it shows 
that HCB has improved in technique and his images were more 'standard', 
approach is quite uniform. But he was good at it, bringing a result back to the 
employer. Amazingly, no picture from the mid 80's. Not even personnal stuff. He 
obviously got fed up.
 
That's all and that's quite long. Richard, I got the leaflet in English and 
kept my Ticket. Let me know you address, off list, and it's all yours!
 
Enjoy!#-----------------------------------
From : Xavier F. BILLE 
mail : hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx
Maisons Alfort - France
 

                                          

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