A decisive moment.
Henri Cartier Bresson dies aged 95
Leaving behind unforgettable images.
Henri Cartier -Bresson RIP
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I guess I didn't know he was still alive. I have books by Ansel Adams, Annie Liebowicz and others, and it's Cartier-Bresson's I look at the most. Well him and Walker Evans.
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You could try a thousand times and not get that photo. And there's no way you can get the decisive moment with a digital. The moment's a second and a half past when the shutter clicks. You need a Leica.
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Viewing and studying Henri Cartier-Bresson was certainly a pivotal moment for me as a junior photographer. The "decisive moment" thought in the capturing of a photograph is something one NEVER forgets. In fact, in nearly all situations I am drawn to the concept before the shutter opens and the image has settled in the emulsion.
It was years after my days at Ryerson when I got the chance to see a print by Cartier-Bresson at my friend's (Brian Orser) house. It was a glorious image of a kid in the street carrying 2 wine bottles with a sh*t-eating grin on his mug, another girl behind him admiring his status.
A few weeks ago I was at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. An astonishing gallery of images assembled - the concept being hands. http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/buhl/flash.htmlAgain, another simply captivating photograph of a man kissing a Cardinal's hands. (It's a briliant show with some of my other favourites: Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Diane Arbus and more - if you're in New York you really shold check it out !).
Anyway, Cartier-Bresson was a founder of Magnum Photos http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/Stati ... Magnum.htm and became much quieter later on in lfe. Apparently never wanted his art to be proclaimed as high art, rather would remain much more modest.
Thanks M. Cartier-Bresson! You inspired many.
It was years after my days at Ryerson when I got the chance to see a print by Cartier-Bresson at my friend's (Brian Orser) house. It was a glorious image of a kid in the street carrying 2 wine bottles with a sh*t-eating grin on his mug, another girl behind him admiring his status.
A few weeks ago I was at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. An astonishing gallery of images assembled - the concept being hands. http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/buhl/flash.htmlAgain, another simply captivating photograph of a man kissing a Cardinal's hands. (It's a briliant show with some of my other favourites: Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Diane Arbus and more - if you're in New York you really shold check it out !).
Anyway, Cartier-Bresson was a founder of Magnum Photos http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/Stati ... Magnum.htm and became much quieter later on in lfe. Apparently never wanted his art to be proclaimed as high art, rather would remain much more modest.
Thanks M. Cartier-Bresson! You inspired many.
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