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René Burri Swiss photographer

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For those who've never heard of him, there's a short piece in The Guardian today worth seeing:

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-of-rene-burri-swiss-photographer-in-pictures

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This is Burri about the São Paulo photo show above:

“In those days Henri Cartier-Bresson limited us to lenses from 35 mm to 90 mm.
When I showed him the photos he said, ‘brilliant René!’
I went outside and shouted ‘Hah!’
He heard me and said ‘what was that?
I said, ‘nothing, never mind’.
The lens I used was 180 mm – I never told him!
At that point I broke loose from my mentor.
I killed my mentor!”
 
Great article, I wasn't familiar with his work in colour.
André Kertész was another photographer who regulary used long lenses for the street, like a 300 mm.
 
I’m into street photography and obviously favour 35-50mm but Saul Leiter’s telephoto work is masterful.

Leiter: I liked different lenses for different times. I am fond of the telephoto lens, as I am of the normal 50 mm lens. I had at one point a 150 mm lens and I was very fond it. I liked what it did. I experimented a lot. Sometimes I worked with a lens that I had when I might have preferred another lens. I think Picasso once said that he wanted to use green in a painting but since he didn’t have it he used red. Perfection is not something I admire. [Laughs]. A touch of confusion is a desirable ingredient.
 


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