Tag: Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The Lost New Jersey Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson | The New Yorker
The Lost New Jersey Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson “Why New Jersey? Because people make such a funny face when you mention New Jersey.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-lost-new-jersey-photographs-of-henri-cartier-bresson In 1975, the renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson received an invitation to travel from Paris to America for what would become one of his final photographic projects. Choose…
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Museum of Modern Art examines the career of Henri Cartier-Bresson – The Boston Globe
Link: In 1932, a young photographer named Ansel Adams sought to lay down the law: “the artist must have a clear and complete conception of the final effects of the print before he operates the shutter of his lens’’ (Adams’s italics). That same year, a slightly younger photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, took what may be the…
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Perfect and Unrehearsed – The New York Times
Perfect and Unrehearsed (Published 2015) The ‘‘decisive moment,’’ in the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and his stylistic followers, is a mysteriously precise collaboration with the world. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/perfect-and-unrehearsed.html Martin Munkacsi’s image, Cartier-Bresson said, inspired his own approach, showing him that ‘‘photography could reach eternity through the moment.’’
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Henri Cartier-Bresson : China 1948-1949 I 1958
[contentcards url=“https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/henri-cartier-bresson-china-1948-1949-i-1958-bb/”] Henri Cartier-Bresson : China 1948-1949 I 1958 On November 25, 1948, Henri Cartier-Bresson receives an assignment from Life magazine to report on the “last days of Beijing” before the arrival of the Maoists troops. He went there for two weeks, and remained ten months, mainly around Shanghai, attending the fall of the town…
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Italy by Magnum , from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Paolo Pellegrin – The Eye of Photography
Italy by Magnum , from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Paolo Pellegrin For L’Italia di Magnum. Da Henri Cartier-Bresson a Paolo Pellegrin, an exhibition currently on view at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, in Torino, twenty photographers have been called upon to recount events, great and small, through Italian figures and localities from the post-war…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Man, the Image & the World This collection of work provides the ultimate retrospective look at a lifetime’s achievement. It includes the first photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson, some of which have never been published, rarely seen work from all periods of his life, and a generous selection of classic photographs that…
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Contact sheets: where the magic and chaos of photographs comes alive | Art and design | The Guardian
Contact sheets: where the magic and chaos of photographs comes alive From the D-Day landings and Tiananmen Square to Salvador Dalí’s flying-cat hijinks, contact sheets reveal the hidden secrets of unforgettable images via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/02/contact-sheets-magnum-photography-magic-chaos Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-founder of the famed Magnum agency, once likened the contact sheet to the analyst’s couch. “It’s all…
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An Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1958
An Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1958 A couple of months ago, we shared an interview with the photographer known as Weegee that was released in the 1958 vinyl record titled “Famous via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/05/03/an-interview-with-henri-cartier-bresson-from-1958/ It is the same intuition. You have to know in which framework you have to tell your story for the…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson “Pen, Brush and Camera” documentary | Leica News & Rumors
Henri Cartier-Bresson “Pen, Brush and Camera” documentary – Leica Rumors You can watch the “Pen, Brush and Camera” full length documentary (1998) about Henri Cartier-Bresson on YouTube: Related posts: Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The Impassioned Eye” documentary Remembering Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Ce via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2015/01/28/henri-cartier-bresson-pen-brush-and-camera-documentary.aspx/ You can watch the “Pen, Brush and Camera” full length documentary (1998)…
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The Return of The Decisive Moment – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/22/henri-cartier-bresson-decisive-moment-reprint/#1 Its value as an out-of-print collectable has risen over the past few decades resulting in keeping this masterpiece out of the hands of many younger photographers. Finally, after 62 years, it is again seeing the light of day this December with…
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Beyond Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Fresh Look at a Master’s Work
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/03/11/beyond-cartier-bresson-a-history-of-a-masters-early-work/#1 The primary (but hardly the sole) merit of this extraordinary Cartier-Bresson retrospective is that it sheds light on little-known aspects of his career. Too often Cartier-Bresson has been represented only as the artist of the “decisive moment,” as if his vision had…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson and Matine Franck’s Romantic Photos
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/02/13/henri-cartier-bresson-martine-franck-romantic-photos/#1 In a 2010 interview with Charlie Rose, photographer Martine Franck gave an insight into how she first got together with her husband, renowned Magnum founder Henri Cartier-Bresson: “Martine,” Bresson had apparently said to Franck, by way of showing his romantic interest,…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’
Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’ In 1971, Sheila Turner-Seed interviewed Henri Cartier-Bresson and other luminaries for a series of film strips that were lost until her daughter rediscovered them decades later. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/cartier-bresson-there-are-no-maybes/?_r=0 If you have little equipment, people don’t notice you. You don’t come like a show-off. It seems like an…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Living and Looking
Link: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Living and Looking – NYTimes.com That’s a wonderful thing with a camera. It jumps out of you. I’m extremely impulsive. Terribly. It’s really a pain in the neck for my friends and family. I’m a bunch of nerves. But I take advantage of it in photography. I never think. I set, quick!…
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On William Eggleston Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson
Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » On William Eggleston Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson “William, color is bullshit.”
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MY TIME WITH HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
Link: ISHU PATEL | MY TIME WITH HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON Next day early morning we took an auto rickshaw to the city centre. Suddenly he was a different person. While we passed through the narrow streets into alley ways, and from bazaars into crowded markets, he made himself as inconspicuous as possible, the entire time shooting…
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Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson
Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled the world for four decades, both documenting and participating in the art, political, and social movements that would move … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/happy-birthday-henri-cartier-bresson.html#slide_ss_0=1 Today, in honor of Cartier-Bresson’s birthday, we take a look at some of the more celebratory photographs from his extraordinary career.
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Joel Meyerowitz: Icon with a Leica
Leica Portrait: Joel Meyerowitz An award-winning street photographer who has been creating memorable images in the great photojournalistic tradition since 1962, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered the use… via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/38937942 Tony and I looked at each other and said, “That must be Henri Cartier-Bresson. Tony pushes me to go and see this guy and I walk…
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Remembering Henri Cartier-Bresson
Remembering Henri Cartier-Bresson – Leica Rumors Henri Cartier-Bresson died seven years ago on August 3rd, 2004. Here is an old interview he gave to Charlie Rose: Via Aphotostudent Related posts: Leica Photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, “The Decisive Moment” (video) Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2011/08/03/remembering-henri-cartier-bresson.aspx/ Henri Cartier-Bresson died seven years ago on August 3rd,…