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Frederik, I watched this video with interest. I had a fascinating interaction with H C-B. I did a lot of street photography inLondon and on Euro trips in the late 1980s into the 90s and, while I greatly admired Kertesz, Koudelka, Doisneau, Ronis, and Erwitt et al, H C-B was my idol. I used a Leica with B&W film. I noticed a discrepancy in one of his photos, the one with the children playing in the rubble of a ruined house in Spain (I think Seville?). In one of the photo books (I think the Aperture series - I'm can't remember now, all my books are in storage) there was crack in the wall at front on the right. But I was sure I had seen this photo without the crack. I went to the V&A museum print room and, sure enough, the print in their collection had no crack in the wall. I was a journalist at The Guardian and wanted to ask him about this for a possible story to be published so arranged with an agent to speak to the great man. This must have been in around 1990 and he was getting rather old. When asked about the "missing crack" he said the negative had been damaged when a friend kept many of his negs in a biiscuit tin under a bed during the war. At some point the crack on the neg had been repaired, he said - but he was clearly uncomfortable talking about it in terms of the original having been manipulated. I kept trying to ask more questions about it for the story and he kept switching to talking about his sketching which he said was now his passion. He seemed embarassed about the issue and I did not want to discomfit my hero any further. He told me that he hoped I would not have the story published and ended the phone call quite abruptly! I wrote the story but never put it forward for publication out of respect for his wishes. Anyway, keep up the good work with your How Tp Photograph Like... series. I love seeing you have the same passion for the great pioneers of our craft as I once had!
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In college Henri was my muse. We were allocated 4 rolls Tri-X per week and one roll of Ektachrome. During the Paris riots he shot a minimum number of photos over 4 days, but each one told a story and was used in Paris Match... other photographers would shoot thousands of frames with their motor driven Nikon Photomics or F’s.
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Love the video man. Always a good way to challenge your eye when you try to make photos in a similar way to one of the greats. Also, I always think it's so dope that you and your mom work together to produce these videos. So cool that yall can share photography and video together! Keep it up man!
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“It’s quicker than drawing.”
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