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Many visitors to this site are Henri Cartier-Bresson (HCB) devotees, I have therefore decided to post a link to an interview that Cartier-Bresson gave to Charlie Rose in July 2000.

Charlie Rose asked many dumb questions and made a few glaring mistakes about photography. Oft times he cut him off before he could finish his sentence and in some cases he finished his sentences. HCB never seems at ease during the interview and looks increasingly relieved as the interview draws to a close.

The interview and interviewer have many flaws, but it is afterall HCB and therefore worth the watch.

Google Video Link: Interview with HCB

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January 19 - April 29, 2007

Louise Brooks and the "New Woman" in Weimar Cinema

From the ICP website:
The American silent-film actress Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the great female icons in the history of the cinema. Although she starred in over thirty films, Brooks is best known for the role of Lulu in the classic German film Pandora's Box (1929), directed by G.W. Pabst. As played by Brooks, Lulu was a jazz-age beauty wearing high-fashion clothes and a severe black bob. She embodied the ideal of the Weimar-era "New Woman," a social role that connoted political equality, free-spiritedness, and gender ambiguity. Drawing on the vast Louise Brooks at the George Eastman House, this exhibition will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of her birth. It is organized by International Center of Photography Assistant Curator Vanessa Rocco, and is the eleventh in the "New Histories of Photography" series, a project of the ICP/GEH Alliance.

ICP Museum Gallery
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-857-0000

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