More on the excellent but exhaustive Henri Cartier-Bresson show at MoMA to come - but as I sit in the Jet Blue terminal waiting for my flight to L.A., I ask you - "Is this anyway to greet people at the entrance to a photography show?".
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What I find especially irritating is that these prohibitions are completely futile. Dozens of people are sneaking photos in exhibits like these every minute.
The photos are out there, on Flickr and Facebook and blogs. And not just cell phone snaps; here's a photo from a medium format Mamiya: http://bit.ly/bc77Ar
(And the worst is when guards ignore people snapping cell phone photos but stop people with better cameras. Apparently museums are happiest when the world is filled with crappy images of their exhibitions.)
disappointing although you gotta love the irony. i'll have to bring my charcoal and sketchbook when i take in the show!
And yet, so many galleries do.
Kind of like H C-B himself.....
absolutely right. And so ridicules. I can understand "no flash photography" (no light pollution,no disturbing clicks) but just plain photography. Well, if Cartier- Bresson had to obey to these kind of signs half of the pictures in the show would not have been taken
haha! love the irony
makes me half expect to walk in and see a diagonal line through every photograph in the show!!
Ironic and very draconian. I am so tired of this attitude in galleries, Joe is spot on when he points out the double standards that galleries have at a time when they should embrace and celebrate public photography.
I adore this woman! YES! YES! YES! She is cutting edge fantastic inventive and ground-breaking and has the guts of a Polish girl like myself.Brilliant! I read about this show in W Magazine and am gonna see her and sit for at least 15 minutes, for as Andy Warhol said, we each will be famous 15 minutes.... hope I'm not too late? Where is that rabbit hole?
My husband said exactly the same thing as you when he saw the shot.
love your photo of LA Moonrise
LOL! Ridiculous. Yet, I suppose if everyone brought cameras, and they were going off constantly, flashes and all, it would be a bit irritating and difficult to enjoy the exhibit.
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