HCB exhibit at the ICP in New York

[amateriat]

With luck and fair winds, I'll see it this weekend.

Anybody need any silver halide from the museum shop? Couple boxes of shadows? Some Zone III?

PM me when you hit town. I have a somewhat full plate this weekend, but you never know.🙂


- Barrett

 

[sattva]

Was there @March 11th. Wonderful exhibition letting you somehow lurk into HCB's kitchen. Very pleasant show, the movie is great too, his voice adds to the atmosphere.
BTW, I didn't notice, that pictures were hang too low as folks here pointed out, maybe because I'm only 1.8 meters tall 🙂
The Munkacsi's part was a big surprise for me, and was very good too.
Highly recommended.

 

[stephen.s1]

Magus.. sorry for the delay. Just saw your post a few mins ago.

TriX/D76. CV 40mm 1.4. Thanks.

Aside: HCB scrapbook from Amazon, less than $60 inc shipping. A very nice printing and binding job.

 

[Biggles]

PM me when you hit town. I have a somewhat full plate this weekend, but you never know.

Very gracious of you, sir. Would have done so had I seen your post while I was there, but I had no comms whatsoever. Hotel was a WiFi blackout zone. Laptop served as ballast.

Saw the show. Saw everything they had.

The Cartier-Bresson exhibit was...good, content-wise. Almost totally spoiled by how it was hung, though; I'm 5'-8" or thereabouts, and I had to stoop to see the lower panels. Real pain in the neck. The curator should be shouted at, in public. (If someone gets me his/her name, I'll make an appointment and do it.) Dumb-headedness.

The best parts of it, for me, were seeing a couple of familiar pictures in the flesh, and the 18-minute film. The film was just killer. Wonderful little insights, and pictures, lots of pictures, bright and big enough to see.

Trawled the rest of the pictures they had up, while I was there:

The big platinum portraits in the café downstairs... they're okay, a little soft in the eyes, but go, go, GO to see the portrait of Cindy Sherman. It's just gorgeous. I wanted to kiss it. I wanted to steal it.

The Louise Brooks exhibit turned my crank, for its plain good high-contrast aesthetic. My kind of glamour shots.

The "New Acquisitions" alcove, off to one side in the basement... There's a GREAT Ralph Meatyard picture of a little kid. Not masked; he doesn't have to be. Kudos to whomever donated or decided to buy that print. Monster shot.

Back upstairs...the Martin Munkacsi exhibit simply blew my freakin' mind. His name was familiar, but I couldn't have described a picture. Oh, boy. I sure can now. The picture of the "motorcyclist going through the puddle" alone was worth my trip to Manhattan. The rest was, like, bonus lottery jackpot winnings. Holy Crap. This man had an eye, for real. I bought the 65-dollar book, and giggled at the bargain I was getting.

IF you are within easy striking distance of midtown Manhattan, and have never been to this place before, go. Go now. Twelve bucks, well spent.

 

[amateriat]

Biggles: Sorry we couldn't meet up, but no biggie: I'm glad you made the exhibit, which is a biggie.

I agree that the HCB exhibit could've been mounted "a bit higher" (BTW, we're both identical in height), but was happy to see it, and need to go back (I arrived, with sig. other and friends, around 4 in the afternoon; to their credit, ICP personnel didn't kick us out until sometime after 6, even though they officially close at 5). This is a must-see, quibbles aside. And the film (more a slide-show-with-commentary) is priceless for Bresson's observations and asides, and some of the quotes he made late in life – misinterpreted, IMO, as dissing photography, are now better understood).

Munkacsi...what you said. Beautiful, funny, ominous (a shot of a youthful Adolf Hitler...you have to see it, I can't do it justice). You can feel what got Henri so wound up to pick up a camera himself.

Saw the Cindy Sherman portrait as well. You put it best.

Louise Brooks? I'd elaborate (gladly), but the prose might be too purple for the room, if you get my drift...

Worth the trip and the twelve bucks, folks. And then some.


- Barrett

 

[Joe Mondello]

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Back upstairs...the Martin Munkacsi exhibit simply blew my freakin' mind. His name was familiar, but I couldn't have described a picture. Oh, boy. I sure can now. The picture of the "motorcyclist going through the puddle" alone was worth my trip to Manhattan. The rest was, like, bonus lottery jackpot winnings. Holy Crap. This man had an eye, for real. I bought the 65-dollar book, and giggled at the bargain I was getting.

Glad you mentioned the Munkacsi exhibit. What a great surprise! The image of the woman with the umbrella jumping over the puddle is a trip.

It really was like getting 2 for 1!

And yes the scores of HC-B 4x5s hung at waist level (!) had me wishing for a magnifying glass, better light and a taller curator!

BTW, I am a member of ICP which affords free admission to the exhibits, discounts on the store and on classes across the street at the school.

Also there is a terrific lecture series on Wed nights that has to be the best bargain in town. $155 for 10 lectures by working photographers. Plus there is a terrific photography library at the school which members can use.

Here's a link to the current lecture series info . . .

http://shopping.icp.org/school/continuing/course.html?category_id=&product_id=26186

 

[peter_n]

This exhibit ends today! Get there if you can! I agree with most of the above comments - this is a wonderful exhibition and I've ordered the Munkacsi book...