Wednesday, August 04, 2004

A Decisive Moment 

Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson by Jane Brown (1957)






Henri Cartier-Bresson (Jane Brown 1957)

One of the world's greatest photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson died today at 95. Cartier-Bresson was an inspiration for me and probably any photographer with notions of being good or respectable. 

Behind The Gare St. Lazare (Henri Cartier-Bresson 1932)




Behind The Gare St. Lazare (Henri Cartier-Bresson 1932)

He has said that a sense of human dignity is an essential quality for any photojournalist, and feels that no picture, regardless of how brilliant from a visual or technical standpoint, can be successful unless it grows from love and comprehension of people and an awareness of "man facing his fate." [...] "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject," he wrote in The Decisive Moment. "The little human detail can become a leitmotif."

More Cartier-Bresson photographs





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