Yep, I checked it, the Photo magazine is his 90 anniversary issue BTW. And the image is printed with black borders to look like it was not cropped - but it is, much. Yep, HCB is one of the all time greats, cropping or no cropping. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 24. joulukuuta 2002 0:50 Aihe: Re: CropTastic (WAS: Re: Medium Format - Which one is best?) >Well, I think you're splitting hairs here Tom. <g> > >I guess what I ~should~ have said is that some of his prints were cropped. >Whether he did it, or his lab guy at Magnum did really doesn't matter, IMHO. > >The fact is that it happened. His famous photograph, "Derriere la Gare >Saint-Lazare", the one of the fellow stepping off the horizontal ladder into a >large pool of water is an example. At least one third (maybe more) of the >bottom of the neg is cropped out, as is a good bit of the left-hand side. I'm >looking at a photograph of the negative and comparing it to the print, as I type >this (both are in the May 1998 Photo magazine [French version]). > >In that article, is stated the following: > >"D'ailleirs la legende qui veut qu'il refusait tout recadrage est simplement nee >du fait que c'etait tres rarement necessaire." > >My French is weak, but I think that says: "The legend that he refused all >reframing [cropping?] was simply born due to the fact that it was rarely >necessary". > >"Rarely necessary". Certainly it was the exception, but it did happen. And, it >in no way lessens my admiration for the man, who is one of my all-time >favourites. > >regards, >frank >
