Henri Cartier-Bresson is a French photographer that is considered to be the father of photojournalism. He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style that was coined "The Decisive Moment." We talk about the decisive moment in class even. Before landing on photography, Henri experimented with music and oil painting.
Cartier-Bresson said, "The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street."
The Surrealists approached photography with a voracious appetite for the usual and unusual...The Surrealists recognized in plain photographic fact an essential quality that had been excluded from prior theories of photographic realism. They saw that ordinary photographs, especially when uprooted from their practical functions, contain a wealth of unintended, unpredictable meanings. Cartier-Bresson became close with this surrealist movement throughout his career. His book, "The Decisive Moment" became a huge influence on photographers everywhere.
Cartier-Bresson said, "The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street."
The Surrealists approached photography with a voracious appetite for the usual and unusual...The Surrealists recognized in plain photographic fact an essential quality that had been excluded from prior theories of photographic realism. They saw that ordinary photographs, especially when uprooted from their practical functions, contain a wealth of unintended, unpredictable meanings. Cartier-Bresson became close with this surrealist movement throughout his career. His book, "The Decisive Moment" became a huge influence on photographers everywhere.
