HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Last Decisive Moment” (2004)

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Greenfield, Indiana, 1960 By Bruno Chalifour, Afterimage, Sept-Oct, 2004 A lot has been written, and more will be, about the life in photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson. If Europe contributed to the medium in the twentieth century, Cartier-Bresson, a.k.a. HCB, probably stood among the best, if not the spearhead of its protagonists. For decades, this now world-famous photographer tried to seize the essence of his time, and crystallize it in th…

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Last Decisive Moment” (2004)

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

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Madrid, 1933 The Decisive Moment – Photographs and Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1973) Henri Cartier-Bresson “I’ve been taking pictures when I was very young. I think I don’t remember what age. I started by painting and drawing and for me photography was a mean of drawing and that’s all. Immediate sketch done with intuition and you can’t correct it. If you have to correct it it’s your next picture. But life is very fluid. Well som…

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Decisive Photographs” (1953)

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Review of The Decisive Moment, Originally published in Image Magazine, Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House, April, 1953 The Decisive Moment, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, New York, Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. 126 plates. $12.50. THE French edition of this book of 126 splendid reproductions of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs bears the title Images a la Sauvette. The phrase is idio…

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Decisive Photographs” (1953)

ASX.TV: Henri Cartier-Bresson – “Just Plain Love” (2001)

ASX.TV: Henri Cartier-Bresson – “Just Plain Love” (2001)

Henri Cartier-Bresson “L’amour tout court” (“Just Plain Love” 2001) Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the “street photography” style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Trained as a painter, he began his…

ASX.TV: Henri Cartier-Bresson – “Just Plain Love” (2001)