> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Chris Mitchell > > ...as long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise" (Thanks, Ray > Davies) > > http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/HCBandBeyond1/slides/_IMG3875.html > and > http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/HCBandBeyond1/slides/_IMG3881.html > > Bob W and I went to Somerset House and saw Cartier-Bresson: A Question > of Colour. Some super photographs, but the link between them and HCB > was a little tenuous. I'm sure that Bob will tell you all about it - > and my misdemeanours for the day. > > Link to a 15 shot GESO including some from the Lord Mayor's show > procession. It's where the City livery companies have a day out and mix > with soldiers and other hangers on. > > http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/HCBandBeyond1/index.html >
they've come out very well indeed. I love the shot of the abandoned musical instruments. And the chaps delivering my baked beans. I don't entirely understand why they're pushing the Cartier-Bresson bit other than to increase footfall. There were about 6 photos by HCB, none of them ever exhibited in the UK before. I don't think I'd seen any before, and most of them could not be described as classics, although I think a couple of them were superb. They were all taken from his 1947 tour of the USA, and were all in B&W, although there were some copies of Life and other magazines which showed some of his colour essays. So I suppose the connection was that he was shooting similar subjects to some of the early colour photographers - Meyerowitz, Haas, Helen Levitt, Gruyaert, Trent Park (first time I've seen a show featuring his work) all featured in the show, as well as a number of others whom I hadn't heard of before, but who were very impressive. But all in all I think the exhibition stood on its own merits, without needing the tenuous HCB link, and it's very well worth seeing. <http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/henri-cartier-bresson-a-questio n-of-colour> If you're interested in paintings of people's bottoms there is also, at the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, a very good exhibition of lesser-known work by Peter Lely. <http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2012/peter-lely/index.shtml> One of the interesting things about yesterday was the confirmation I received that Chris is not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Before we met up he was told off by the cops for getting in the way of the Lord Mayor's Parade. Then when we went to get lunch he insisted on trying to serve himself at the salad bar, which provoked something of a hissy fit from the waiter. Anyway, it was all Chris's fault and he deserved it. But that wasn't enough for him, oh no. While we were walking around the photo exhibition he kept taking pictures 'a la sauvette', which seemed quite appropriate for an HCB show, but it provoked one of the attendants to read him the riot act. Strangely enough, in the Courtauld Gallery we watched as a young woman leant against a wall to look at one of the paintings, and rested her head directly on the unprotected surface of another centuries-old oil painting! The attendant seemed almost apologetic about asking her not to. If anything deserved a hissy fit, that did. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
