Henri Cartier-Bresson There were many games that Cartier-Bresson played with his photographs. The anarchist in him liked to test the limits of a photograph. When he butts up against those limitations he uses the 2D effects of the picture plane to his advantage. Lets look at how and why he does this. Outside of the [more...]
Part V [ HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON ] The landscape of our dreams will never been seen in our waking life. Its reality is confined to a place between imagination and fantasy. How can we explore a dream if we cannot bring our cameras along for the trip? | FREUD’S SOFA | An artist in the [more...]
[ HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON ] The world we see in advertisements is hardly a reflection of reality. The billboards of our cities are as doctored as Raphael’s School of Athens. Set against the backdrop of a “perfect world” is an chance for a photographer to play with the contradictions of imagination versus reality. | WHITE [more...]
[ HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON ] In Part II of this series we will look at how Cartier-Bresson uses contradictions to undermine the stability of everyday life. Strange things are happening all around us, but it takes a keen eye to find them with a camera. | WHERE WERE WE ? | In Part [more...]
A Surrealist Photographer [ HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON ] What do the Surrealist Manifesto and Cartier-Bresson have to do with each other? After his 1947 show at the Museum of Modern Art, Robert Capa advised Cartier- Bresson to stop calling himself a Surrealist Photographer. Years later Cartier-Bresson agreed that Capa’s advice was sound. The Manifesto While [more...]
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