Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson has been called "equivocal, ambivalent and accidental"1 since his debut as a photojournalist. Amplified and enriched, the work of the photographer is revealed in all its grandeur. While he may appear to "be a hurried man or a traveler without luggage"2, to quote a few of his titles, he is a poet, attentive to the act of love made with each photograph, and this is where the genius is revealed. From a desired distance, we discover simultaneously the geographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the world’s most influential photography Masters. With his small hand camera he unobtrusively photographed people’s lives around the world. He was solely responsible for bridging the gap between photojournalism and art. He has published more than a dozen books of his work. The greatest museums in the world have shown his work. From my start as a photographer, I was always drawn to taking photographs of people. I feel it was only instinct that
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a man of many things. He was mainly a french photographer who helped establish photojournalism as an art form. Mr.Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on August 22,1908 in Chanteloup,France. He did a lot of wondering around the world with his camera as a pioneer in photojournalism. Cartier-Bresson used a lot of cameras when he did his travels.His main focus was to capture something visionary and unique. Growing up Cartier-Bresson was the oldest of five children and always had
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where taken on the streets of Glasgow and represent a changing view in photography. This area was one of the worst urban slums in Brit... ... middle of paper ... ...ber 2013]. Moma.org. 2014. MoMA | Interactives | Exhibitions | 2010 | Henri Cartier-Bresson. [online] Available at: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/henricartierbresson/#/themes/2/119.html [Accessed: 2 Jan 2014]. Paulcoatesphoto.com. 2013. Photographers: Sebastiao Salgado | Paul Coates Photo. [online] Available at:
INTRODUCTION This essay will discuss and compare two different styles of taking a photograph. The first part of this essay will in depth look into and explore more about spontaneous photography and how Bressons view on the decisive moment is relevant in this matter. In the second part this essay will go deeper in to the narrative world of staged photography. The opposite of a candid and spontaneous photograph. The two genre of photography are far from each other, but where goes the line between
As one of the world’s first photojournalists, Henri Cartier-Bresson has transformed the profession through his concept of “the decisive moment”, the dramatic climax of a picture where everything falls perfectly into place. Traveling extensively since 1931, Cartier-Bresson’s images have been renown throughout the world due to his remarkable sense of timing and his intuition in seizing the right moment. To fully understand Cartier-Bresson’s pictures, one must first understand his artistic philosophy
As with everything in life, there is always a beginning and photojournalism. Without photojournalist, people not directly related to situations, would have never experienced the frontlines of war, the Great Depression, or the inhumanities of abortion. Photographically evaluating history is a way to analyze what once was and to forge ahead toward what will be. From its turn of the century birth, the professionals that have shaped and continue to form; its “Golden Era,” to its present day modern identity;
It is considered that photography only became widely available to the public when the Kodak Eastman Company introduced the box shaped Brownie Camera in 1900. (Baker, n.p.) Its features became more refined since its original placing on the market; one of the reasons why it has become considered the birth of public photography is because of the processing. Using a similar image capture system, the brownie exposed the light to a 120mm roll of film, which could be wound round, meaning six photographs
She began taking photographs for the ‘Rolling Stones’ in 1970. In 1980 she shot a photo of John Lennon and Yoko One, the day John Lennon was shot. In 1983 she got a job working for the entertainment magazine ‘Vanity Fair’. Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson who were talented photographers influenced Leibovitz. Structural Frame Leibovitz’s photographs are easily recognised for their bright colours, intense lighting and for her unique and surprising poses. She is a master at projecting the pop
transformed the pictorialist fashion image of the late thirties with his customary approach. One particular photograph: ‘Boys at Lake Tanganyika’, epitomized the elements of serendipity and joie de vivre, which later inspired photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (whom coined the term, The Decisive Moment). Bessayon says: “I couldn’t believe such a thing could be caught with the camera, it made me realize that photography could reach eternity through the moment” . Despite this, Sontag emphasizes that
of The Photographic image” in Alan Trachtenberg (ed.) Classic Essays on Photography New Haven : Leete’s Island Books. Benjamin, Walter (1999) “The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproducibility” in Illuminations London: Pimlico. Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1952) The Decisive Moment New York: Simon and Schuster. Green, David (2006) “Marking Time” in Stillness And Time : Photography and The Moving Image, Brighton : Photoforum Moriarty, Michael (1991) Roland Barthes Great Britain : Polity
I’d like to talk about the “Golden Ratio” and “The rule of Third”, They are very famous in the world and always use in the building , art and photograph,etc.They have lots of value in the world, although someone has a different opinion. Because of people have different arguments, the “Golden ratio” and “the rule of thirds” can become more complete . The “Golden Ratio” can be described as a complex mathematical formula.The Golden Ratio is a special number which be found from division line into
Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer, photo journalist. He was born Endre Friedmann into a Jewish family October 22, 1913 in Budapest now known as Austria Hungary. He was best known for redefining wartime photojournalism by insisting working in trenches, in the midst of combat. Capa originally wanted to be a writer but he found work as a photographer in Berlin and grew to love the art of photography. He later moved to Germany when Adolf Hitler’s rule was just beginning. He did this you keep
photographer and he covered five different wars during his career: the Spanish Civil War in 1936, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the First Indochina War. In 1947 he co-founded Magnum Photos with, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert, David Seymour and George Rodger. In 1951 he would become President of the company. The company, as stated by their website, “is a living archive updated daily with new work from across the globe”. As Hitler began his rise
“photographers photographer” (Block 2002), as she was far more acclaimed by her peers than she ever was by the public. In her lifetime and after her death she has been called a street, documentary and lyrical photographer, and compared to the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, someone she drew great inspiration from. I’m going to end with extract from James Agee’s forward in Helen Levitt’s published work: ‘A Way of Seeing’ (1965), which I believe sums up her early work perfectly. “In Miss Levitt’s photographs the
on that page. Although there are many ads in the magazine, I suppose that one shouldn't expect any less; they're mainly ads for photography-type companies and such. This issue is still plentiful in articles, starting off with a page on Henri Cartier-Bresson. As I skim through American Photo, I finally come to an article on "The 25 Most Important Photographers Now." There's a nice introduction on the first page, about what this article is about, and on the bottom-left corner it starts with the
print in your hands. A traditional print. Yes, it can be hold, it can be touched, it can be smelled, it can be felt. This essay themasised the uniqueness of the physical process as well as the thought process of analogue photography. As Henri Cartier Bresson wrote nicely about the decisive moment "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression
When she graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with her BFA in 1971, she became the magazine's principal photographer in 1973 and stayed with them for the next ten years. Her major influences especially when she was at college were Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. On a personal note, Leibovitz admitted to her being single in an interview with Anna B. Bohdziewicz last January 19, 1998. Bohdziewicz had asked about how as an artist a family can affect one's work. She replied with: "I
This essay will seek to outline my findings on movie and theatre by looking at still image and moving image. I will discuss the relationship between cinema and film, and also compare some works of artists in order to answer the question which how might photography be contextualized as image on the threshold of still and moving – as an object incorporating the temporal and the narrative, the writing of history, or the presentation of documentation as record. A French photographer Franck Bohbot found