Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:

> Well, Henri Cartier-Bresson is not dead, so you might want to 
>send him a digital camera and see what he thinks.  Perhaps he 
>has always dreamed of shooting eight frames a second, 
>instead of one hour per frame.

Of course, I doubt any of us could persuade him to pick up a 
camera at all - he's definitely of a "been there, done that, finished 
with it" mindset these days. Also, in his latter days of shooting he 
was often using a high-end p&s camera with both motorized film 
advance/rewind, so he wasn't totally averse to certain technical 
advencements.

But the argument about what he *might* have done with a digital 
camera is awfully akin to stuff like "Imagine if Mozart had a 
Kurzweil or Synclavier!" Alas, he didn't, but he also didn't spend 
most of his creative energy chasing his own tail, like a certain 
prominent minimalist I could name. (Terry Riley fans, put your 
axes down...I wasn't referring to him).  HCB made images I never 
tire of viewing. I'd say his brain and thumb were in fine sync with 
each other, and moving quite fast enough.

- Barrett