During a recent amble along London's South Bank, I popped into Tate Modern. I'm not a fan of much of the modern art contained in there but there are a few interesting things, the turbine hall (currently undergoing some work and inaccessible) is a great space and the gallery does have a half-decent photography section in its bookshop.
Anyway, I was thumbing through the books when I stumbled across a DVD of "In No Great Hurry" a documentary about Saul Leiter, filmed whilst he was still alive. It's split into 13 "chapters" and Saul provides his insight and opinions into the various topics. I'd recently seen the retrospective on his work, so I bought the DVD. Once home, I put it into my player only to find that my player didn't recognise the zone, even though it was supposedly able to be played in the UK. Not happy. After much sodding around, I've just tried it in my Apple Mac CD/DVD player and, although I needed to change the zone, that was a doddle.
Right; the film. If you haven't seen it and you'd like to see a charming, self-effacing and slightly eccentric photographer spend 90mins answering questions on the what, why and how of his career, it is fantastic, IMO. If I'm telling you something you know already, then apologies - but this is a really enjoyable film.
