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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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Perfect and Unrehearsed – The New York Times
Perfect and Unrehearsed 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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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 Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-founder of the famed Magnum agency, once likened the contact sheet to the analyst’s couch. “It’s all there: what surprises us is what we catch, what we miss, what disappears.”
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An Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1958
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 magazine, but you must not work for the magazine. You work for yourself, and the story.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson “Pen, Brush and Camera” documentary | Leica News & Rumors
Henri Cartier-Bresson “Pen, Brush and Camera” documentary You can watch the “Pen, Brush and Camera” full length documentary (1998) about Henri Cartier-Bresson on YouTube:
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The Return of The Decisive Moment – LightBox
The Return of The Decisive Moment 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 a gorgeous facsimile from the German publishing house […]
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Beyond Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Fresh Look at a Master’s Work
Link: Beyond Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Fresh Look at a Master’s Work – LightBox 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 emerged […]
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Henri Cartier-Bresson and Matine Franck’s Romantic Photos
Link: Henri Cartier-Bresson and Matine Franck’s Romantic Photos – LightBox 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, “I want to come […]
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’
Link: Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’ – NYTimes.com If you have little equipment, people don’t notice you. You don’t come like a show-off. It seems like an embarrassment, someone who comes with big equipment.
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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
Link: Slide Show: Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson : The New Yorker 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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Just Plain Love: A Henri Cartier-Bresson Documentary
Via Feature Shoot
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Joel Meyerowitz: Icon with a Leica
Link: The Leica Camera 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 over and ask him, “Are you Henri Cartier-Bresson?” He says, “No, no I am not. Are you the police?” I said, “No, no we are […]
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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
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Worth a look: The Shooting Gallery – videos about photographers
The Shooting Gallery, a tumblr featuring videos about photographers. The videos are divided into two categories: photographers talking and photographers shooting. There are 14 pages of archives to the blog, in which you’ll find videos about the likes of Richard Prince, Donald Weber, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jeff Mermelstein, Stephen Shore, Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Cindy Sherman, […]
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Henri Cartier-Bresson – Life Is Once Forever
via: A Photo Editor