a northern city, this time

Once again, I'm afraid I'm reporting old news that can't really be used by those on the east coast. Brother Roger and I did the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at MoMA in NYC this past week. It closes on June 28, 2010, but will most likely travel elsewhere.

For a Thursday mid day in June, there were an awful lot of people in attendance, many of whom seemed to be French. New York always has a lot of French tourists, and many of them seem to attend an exhibit at MoMA during their stay in the city.

Photo journalism is not my thing, and coupled with the crowds it made it extremely difficult for me to engage in the material. There are many great photographs in the exhibit, but the prints are nothing special, having been printed by a number of sources over the years - or am I simply spoiled by the quality of current digital printing technology? The catalogue of the exhibit, which contains several long essays about HCB's career, also has all the photos hung on the walls. Definitely a simpler method of looking at the pictures, and I think in some cases, higher quality (some of the images are scans of negatives.)