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The Charlie Rose Interview With Henri Cartier-Bresson on July 6, 2000 Richard Avedon Opening :: video

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I have tried to find the words to express how a camera, no matter if it is an iPhone or loaded with film, is just a tool for me to capture a moment a feeling... and then this morning I found an interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson that I did not know existed.
Previously, I admired Cartier-Bresson for his photographic images, but did not know the inner-man. As I listened to the way this self-described anarchist viewed what he did, I was moved to tears in humble recognition of a kindred soul.

The interview is approximately one hour long, and is available on DVD via amazon: Charlie Rose with Richard Avedon; Henri Cartier-Bresson (July 6, 2000)

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Les Tribus De L'Omo - The Painted People of the Surma and Mursi Tribes in Southern Ethiopia - Photos by Hans Silvester

Every now and then I discover with great joy a part of our world which leaves me filled with wonder. In the case of the Surma and Mursi people in Ethiopia, my delight is also visual. 

© Hans Silvester. All rights reserved.

I'm breathlessly left with the impulse to paint: canvases, my body, something, everything.

© Hans Silvester. All rights reserved.

Silvester describes his mission, "what’s most important for me is saving, in some way, as much as possible of this truly living art, which is mobile, changing, subject to infinite variation, and whose constituent elements are simple and form a link between man and nature. It seems to me that our modern painting found the purpose of these elements, this simplicity, and used it as its foundation."

HERE IS A SLIDE SHOW OF MORE THAN FIFTY OF SILVESTER'S IMAGES

Tribus de L'OMO / Hans Silvester

I'm happy to report that Hans Silvester has a new book featuring these photographs. The title is Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. It is available now at amazon.com HERE.

Hans Silvester published part one of this two book series in April 2007. It is Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley. The first volume of the deluxe two-volume set presents the everyday lives of the Omo people, their rituals, parades, children’s games, and even their battles. Silvester's text details his experience.

Learn more about Hans Silvester's  time with the L'omo people at the Marlborough Gallery website HERE.

My thanks to Jayne McKay and Fifty is the New for alerting me to Hans Silvester's slide show.