What Harry Gruyaert Saw
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What Harry Gruyaert Saw
by Tatiana Hopper
March 2023
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Harry Gruyaert definitely deserves another video or two. I was so knocked out by the color in the photos I barely heard the voiceover. Wherever Harry went his muse was already there, even eventually his home country. It kind of reinforces the idea of photography as more a mental discipline of being open to seeing the world in new ways. Easy to do when you are seeing new things for the first time. People who are really good at it see new things every day even when they do the same thing in the same places every day.
I agree completely, his muse is with him everywhere he goes and it’s beautiful to get a glimpse at how he sees the world! Thanks for watching and for the very thoughtful comment! I will be thinking on more videos on him :)
Yes, I walk the same paths daily and see something new each time. Photos are everywhere!
@@dandipalma8687 as winogrand puts it everything is photographable
I was a very young photographer when I discovered Harry Gruyaert's pictures, at the end of the 70s, and I thought: genius! More than forty years later, I still think the same thing. Composition, choice of the moment when he takes the picture (the famous "instant décisif", as Cartier-Bresson called it), color... There is no weak point with Gruyaert, even in black & white (whereas many excellent photographers in black & white are often disappointing in color).
He is so right when he refers to painting! Jeanloup Sieff, a great French photographer, also gave as his first advice to young photographers, "Go to the Louvre!"
For more than ten years, I have participated in the selection of exhibitions for photographic festivals; I regularly select the best photos of amateurs and professionals for an American website, and I notice that many bad photos come from a lack of photographic AND pictorial culture. This is especially noticeable in the post-production stage; many photos that are good at the time of shooting are destroyed because of an exaggeration of the effects (contrast, clarity, vibrance, saturation, tone mapping etc).
Saying how important it is to know the history of photography, but also of painting since the Renaissance, could be the subject of a special video that would help young photographers a lot.
Thank you for this excellent video!
Agreed, it would be very interesting to hear Tatiana’s take on this.
Agree completely! I think it’s fundamental and I did videos here on the channel about filmmaking, illustration a while back on Norman Rockwell, then Edward hopper, Rembrandt and I want to bring more so I will perhaps do more videos around that! Thank you for your very insightful comment and I completely agree with you on the need for more knowledge on the photographic and pictorial culture!
Oh, you’ve reminded me of Sieff. I used to love his work but seem to have forgotten him. Must look it up again. Thank you!
Great video Tatiana, love his work and would love to see more of them, thank you. ❤
Noted Rich! Thank you so much :)
I’m from Ireland and took up photography about a year ago and came across Gary’s work on RUclips. He did a book over 30 years ago in Ireland. Turns out myself and brother are in one of his photographs when i was doing research into his work. We were kids playing on a street with a group of our friends. So Gary if your reading this you owe me percentage of the sales on that book!! I heard it was a best seller 😂😂😂 Love the channel btw. Keep up the great work. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 Andrew. 😊🎉
Hey Andrew thanks for you comment that’s crazy and yeah I bet he owes you some revenue ahah all the best and thanks for tuning in much love to Ireland 🇮🇪 from Ireland 🇮🇪 because I’m also based in Ireland now :)
I think his name is Harry, not Gary 😊
@@dagzimmer4129 that’s right :)
@@TatianaHopper that’s so funny your based in Ireland. When I was looking at your video I said to myself. Looking out your window looks like a place in Ireland. I didn’t want to ask coz that be a bit freaky!! Ha. If you ever do a review you’ll have to do it on that book and give feedback on that photography I was in. Why he would have picked it for the book 😁😁
This is an amazing story! You got captured by a famous photographer and you got into photography later in your life. It’s kind of a feeling of destiny 🎉
I hadn't heard of Harry Gruyaert before. Thanks for introducing his work! I really enjoy your channel.
Thank you so much for watching!
Amazing photographer! Thank you for bring this artist to my attention. Very well done!
Thank you so much for watching & commenting Nick! Appreciate it 🙏🏻
Being a photographer in Belgium, living in antwerp, I'm ashamed I haven't heard earlier from him. Thank you for this episode!
Thank you Ritchie for tuning in I hope you learn more about him it’s so inspiring!
Love your docuseries, they are my go to for famous photographers.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Wow, I loved this video and his photography. The colors are amazing, and I love his images of everyday life and details. Outstanding! Thank you!
Thank you so much Joe! His work is truly impressive and I loved his philosophy!
Great video. Gruyaert's images are so complex and I'm glad you are spreading knowledge about him.
They are thank you so much Paul!
You’re video breakdowns are the best! I love the way in which you take these deep dives to give more context around not just the photographers, but their journey and philosophies (when applicable). Thank you so much for all your work!!!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment Joseph I appreciate it, thank you for watching 🤍
Love your videos. Thank you for introducing me to so many wonderful photographers and beautiful pictures.
Thank you so much Stephen!
I just picked up his Photofile paperback in Waterstones. Some images I find myself staring at for ages!
beautiful and knowledgable video ...thanks for this T.Hopper
Glad you enjoyed it!
More about Harry Gruyaert please Tatiana. This went soo very fast.
Yes sir!
Seconded!
This was great! Loved the soundtrack!
Thanks so much 🙏🏻
Discovered him recently whilst on a weekend in Lille with my wife. Brought back a book of his work for our daughter as I was blown away by some of the landscapes we saw in the exhibition in the Photography museum - lovely people working there were keen to chat about his work. Loved the video. Thanks so much. Now a follower!
Harry Gruyaert is a top master of his craft. His compositions are impeccable. Great video.
Couldn't agree more! Thank you!
Excellent... Thank you so much for featuring some of the work by Harry Gruyaert...
Please follow with more from him... Wonderful colors... "What are you photographing"... "I'm busy"...🤣
I know that made me laugh so much 😅 had to include it in the video he has a quirky personality I think. Will do more on Gruyaert !
One of my favourite photographers of all time! Please make another video about Harry Gruyaert.
Noted! Thanks for watching!
Another home run! I picked up one of his books because of you. I love his color work. Thanks! 🙏
Thats great! Thank you so much!
Thank you for making this work, I am grateful
Thank you for watching & commenting Darryl! 🙏🏻
Tatiana, I absolutely love your videos! Your research and insight are greatly appreciated--thank you.
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Thank you so so much Pat for your very kind words 🙏🏻
I'm so glad I came across your channel, a great video! Definitely i'd love to see more of this photographer's content.
More to come! :)
I always enjoy and learn something from your videos, but this was one of my favorites. Thank you for the important contribution you make to the world of photography.
Thank you so much Rob appreciate your words 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Excellent. I saw his doc (the one that starts on the train) when he was invited in Les Rencontres d’Arles a few years ago. This was the first time I heard of him. Since then i can say that he is with Saul Leiter, the photographer I admire most. Good choice of music from the French movie Amelie.
I laughed at the way he told the guy on the train that he was too busy to answer his question.
I laughed as well that’s why I included it in the beginning thank you for your comment William! I appreciate it and all the best!
Those colors! Definitely would love to see more of his work. I too had heard of him and seen some photos but never delved into his work. So thanks for your video.
Thank you so much Susan! I will be featuring more on the channel I think :)
great video, appreciate the work which went into it. keep em coming !
Thanks, will do!
Thanks for this video on Harry.As a Belgian I like the way he looks at normal things in life!
Thank you so much for watching Marleen! 🙏🏻
Thanks once again Tatiana. You do us a great service with these videos highlighting the lessons to be learnt from those who have mastered their art. keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for tuning in, appreciate the positive feedback and I will continue!
I had not heard of him until a year or so back. His sense of colour and composition is wonderful. In his work I can see Saul Leiter, Alex Webb and Edward Hopper
So did I a bit of different influences and it’s so cool I love his work very inspirational!
Thank you for such a great video about Harry Gruyaert! His is one of my favorites. I've managed to acquire 2 prints of his via Magnum so far. More videos would be wonderful. This one was packed with so many photos I had to stop it often to take a look. The comment you made about how the was able to see the beauty in the ugly (or something like that) was insightful and is deserving of a whole video of its own. Thanks again!
Yes I believe he is able to see the beauty in the ugly and he himself says that in his documentary which I recommend watching if you haven’t already. That’s great I know you’re probably going to treasure those prints! Thank you for watching David and I will be bringing more!
This is been an excellent video to watch, and I plan to watch it a few more times, and I have already shared it with another photographer. Please more!
Thank you so much Jane and appreciate you for sharing it’s important to share knowledge and inspiration with others :)
Great work Tatiana a thoroughly enjoyable episode
Thank you Glenn!
Just love your intro's to the videos, his work is amazing, great video😊
Thank you so much John! His work is amazing :)
Another great video Tania, thanks for sharing. I discovered Harry Gruyaert last year through the book "Harry Gruyaert" with a foreword by Francois Hebel. I recognise many of the photos in your video that are from that book but love your commentary on how he really embraced colour and found things in the ordinary and the banal.
Thanks for introducing me to Gruyaert’s work, very well done!
Would love to see a video on Francesca Woodman and hear what you have to say about her struggles, and how her work became popular later on
Really love these videos, opening up my mind to more ways of seeing the world.
Thank you so much for the kind comment and for watching 🙏🏻
Yes please...I would like to know more about this photographer. Thanks for sharing
Thank you Sarah! And will do!
Another great showcase, I hope you never stop. Just wish MPB was available in here in Canada, that would be awesome.
MPB is available in the US you can for sure get it shipped to Canada I believe :) they’re a global company! Thanks for watching another video
I really enjoyed your preview of Harry but where can I find the 60 minute version please ?
It’s in the description
I did not know about him. The compositions you showed are amazing. It would be nice to have some books reccomandations for him :)
one of my all time faves
I love Gruyaert's work, please keep this content coming :)
And I'd also like to hear your thoughts on another European color master: Lars Tunbjork.
So glad I found your channel. Can't wait for new content. :)
Thank you and welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy the content over here :)
Thank you Tatiana for this video on this relatively unknown master of colour photography. The composition and colours are sublime. I have his book Between Worlds, and all I can say is that his work is brilliant. Thanks again.
Thank you Tim! I definitely want to pick up one of his books and bring it to the channel it would be awesome :) thank you for watching!
Hi Tatiana, thanks so much for all the thought and effort put into this video. For me, you've opened a door to a new part of photography and I love the more intellectual approach to the art of photography. Isn't Harry Gruyaert's work amazing ❤😎
It really is and thank you so much I’m glad I’ve been able to do that and I hope you keep enjoying the videos!
Great video Tatiana, Harry is one of my very favourites along with Alex Webb who you also featured recently, both absolute masters of colour and contrast
Agreed!! Thanks for watching and commenting Tom!
As a street photographer, I hung on your marvelous observations and articulation. Please share more about Gruyaert. Thank you
Thanks Dan and I will! Appreciate the comment!
Color rocks ! Have a safe rest of the week
Thank you so much Carl, you too stay safe
a link between photography and the Flemish Renaissance?!!! Only T can carry this off!! Thank you so much :-)
Thank you for watching Nick! ;)
One of my favourites. I love his books and as you say, his indiscriminate style. An intelligent and informative look at HG's photography thanks.
Thank you so much Geoff! Really appreciate it 🤍
I’ve never heard of him but I a was absolutely enthralled by the photography. I’d love to know more about him.
Thank you and will do!
As someone who studied color outside of photography we looked at color as a design element no less than a shape or a form. I see an understanding in this work, whether he understood it as a part of the composition or not. At any rate he did it well.
My favorite photographer! Thank you.
One of my favourites too, thank you for watching. 🙏🏻
@@TatianaHopper Saul Leiter and Ernst Haas inspire me a lot, too. Simply divine photography.
Without question my favourite photographer, I love his eye for colour, light and composition. Ernst Haas, Eggleston, Saul Leiter and Jay Maisel are also top off my tree for similar reasons..
Gruyaert grew as a photographer and you are growing as a social media journalist!
Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻
So much colors in the past. Colorless times nowadays, so much beige.
Thank you for making this.
Thanks for watching 💪🏻
I love your docu videos.
Thank you so much!
Since childhood I have been obsessed by art, particularly 20th Century - and photography. With that and no chance of a darkroom 80% or more of my photography has been in colour so his work really hits a cord. I loved Haas and Maize, Meyorwitz, Allard and Pete Turner way back with portfolios, posters and books. Then Leiter, Herzog and Gruayert later as I came across them. All have a recognisable but similar handling of colour and shade, with Herzog and Leiter maybe a little more subdued, like Helmer-Peterson, possibly film stock, but all made rich, saturated but not overly bright, tiring “in your face” (modern?) images.
A PS - actually very like Pinkhassov who you recently reviewed. I first saw his work a few years ago on the Magnum site and couldn’t resist a small, lovely but v. pricey print (the rich hotel doorway image),
I love all the names you mentioned thank you for your thoughtful comment :)
I discovered Harry Gruyaert when his book was recommended to me after I bought another book by Alex Webb (“The suffering of Light”, which you know very probably).
He also reminds of William Eggleston because I find they have in common this same philosophy that pictures can be found everywhere. And of course that motivates me to just take my camera and go out open minded.
Thanks for the video. Very interesting as usual. We want some more about him (and others of course) 😊
Thank you Alex! And that makes sense I can see the connection between the photographers you mentioned Webb, Gruyaert & Eggleston. Will bring more! :)
Merci Tatiana pour vos vidéos et votre travail de qualité. Grâce à vous je découvre de si grands photographes. Bravo !
Thanks so much for watching!
His photos are real masterpieces and Morocco series is from another world.
Agreed! Thank you for watching!
like your videos & articles, I think they are very interesting & presented very well
Thank you so much for watching Ernest!
Very informative! Excellent.
Fantastic. Thank you!
This was excellent! A name I did not know!
Thanks so much for watching!
I love his photos. He takes landscape and street photography to the max and really makes it artistic. Mine is more just "here is what it is." and at that, i am too nervous to take chances photographing random humans in a scene mostly. His photography makes me want to push myself. Time will tell if i actually will. I love these videos.
I had the same feeling his photography inspires me into pushing myself to do more and be more involved!
@@TatianaHopper Well in that case, I hope we both make magic with our cameras! We can do it!
Yes, another video focused on Harry G would be great. Looking for books by him
I’ll probably bring one of his books to the channel :)
At the risk of “going on a bit!” another thing Haas, Leiter, Herzog, Turner et al had in common is making beautiful, interesting often abstract images out of mundane settings. I hadn’t heard his comment about beauty from the ugly before but it makes sense of that. Even before I knew of many much of my own photographs have been instinctive similar; just glimpses of things spotted with interesting relationships possibly because of an earlier affinity to painting. I find things like that far more interesting and long lasting than most (typical?) landscapes however beautiful.
Great video of an great photographer!
Thank you!
Would love to learn more about his work please - another great video, thanks 🙏
Thank you so much Andy!
Harry Gruyeart is the color version of HCB!
Excellent video and ... more Gruyaert yes please!
Yes yes yes! I’ll definitely bring more!
Yes. More about this interesting photographer.
My hero .. (And do have a look at his Morocco book)
Love your channel thank you.
Worthy subject. Thank you.
Thank you for watching Greg!
Great stuff. Thank you!
Thank you Enrico!
One the very few photogrphers who does colour so well. I love his work. Now, turning 180 degrees around, how about featuring Raymond Moore? Thanks Tatiana.
I’ll look him up I think i’ve hear of him before but can’t see any images associated to him in my head so I’ll ask my good friend google for a tip :)
@@TatianaHopper I read somewhere, that there were some strange legal problems with the publishing of his work. Can't be sure it was true, though. His photography is nothing like one would expect, perhaps an even more distilled Robert Adams, but they do make one think.
I love his work, thank you for this, also introduced me to some of his work I am not familiar with. I hope he took time to talk to the gentleman later who asked him what he was photographing from the train. Civility doesn’t cost a Penny.
Ahahaha perhaps he did you’re right civility doesn’t cost a penny maybe he was really lost into what he was doing I’m like that and I can’t even hear people, but it was actually a funny accident that’s why I used it for the intro. 😅
I used MPD. It's brilliant. But be honest with the condition of the gear you're selling so you won't be disappointed. I received a good price and MPD had it up for sale a week later for only £100 more than they gave me (£425). So they're very honest. Anyway, another great insight to another photographer. Thank You..
That’s right! I agree I think whatever you do you have to be honest when selling gear and I’m glad you had a good experience with them, cheers for watching!
One of the BEST.
Thank you!
@@TatianaHopper ever consider doing one on Nozolino? I’m sure not everyone’s taste. Borders on documentary and “cerebral” work but he has a very defined style and his talks are interesting.
creo es uno de los mas lindos y claramente tienes una poecia en tu bello idioma y eso es realmente inspirador. sobre todo por que amamos la fotografia
Great video and interpretation of his work
Thank you Sayan!
Thank you❤
You're welcome 😊
Gorgeous!
yes please review one of Gruyaert book
Noted!
Make a video on indian photographers also.
Yes sir!
Would like to hear from you about photographer David Hamilton.
Noted!
Yes, I’d love to see more of Harry, he’s incredible… Great video as always!
Great stuff will be bringing more! Thank you for watching 🙏🏻
I'm curious, what film did he use, perhaps slides? kodachrome?
You're a connoisseur: he was one of the greatest masters of Kodachrome!
@@michelphilippeLehaire that perfect saturation without loosing detail, perfect tones... is so unique!
@@seralegre Kodachrome 64 has been my favorite color film for decades 👌
Yes Kodachrome I recommend watching his documentary!
When I though I found all the photographers I need to fine you show me a new one
For those who understand French, I recommend this recent interview of Harry Gruyaert: ruclips.net/video/Qb5VA3jsfbM/видео.html
The English machine translation is pretty bad. The automatic subtitling in French is not excellent but will help those who have some knowledge of French.
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can someone help me out with the music please, I cant find it using shazam, sounds like form a film I know
It’s in the description
@@TatianaHopper im sorry I cant see it
I's quite a controversial position to take, pronouncing his name in French, since he's Flemish (Dutch-speaking) and it's a Flemish surname (the -aert suffix is the giveaway). Fights have broken out over less here in Belgium :D
I adore Harry's work, but when I met him I was sadly turned off by his personality.
A great Belgian photographer who is also a wonderful human being is Carl De Keyzer. Would be wonderful to see a video about his work!
I can see why that could happen when I saw the documentary I understood he lives very much in his own world and probably not the kind of person that will warm up to others quite quickly. My impression at least I might be wrong. I will check Carl’s work!
@@TatianaHopper super. I can recommend his works God Inc, Zona and DPR Korea Grand Tour.