Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Photojournalist master of the miniature camera and visual poet of the
real world
05 August 2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer, film-maker and artist: born
Chanteloup, France 22 August 1908; married 1937 Retna Mohini (marriage
dissolved), 1970 Martine Franck (one daughter); died
l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France 2 August 2004.
"The creative act," remarked Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1980, "lasts but
a brief moment, a lightning instant of give and take, just enough for
you to level your camera and to trap the fleeting moment in your
little box." For Cartier-Bresson, artist turned film-maker and
photographer, the art of making good photographs was always to do with
the chase, with the capturing of a moment in time, the encapsulation
of memory.
Of all the photographers who have directed the very way we think about
photography, Cartier-Bresson must be the most influential. His view of
the "real" world has informed the course of photojournalism for over
50 years - his insistence on spontaneity, discretion, speed and
composition transformed press photography into photojournalism with
its emphasis on the photo story, the dramatic moment, the poetic flow
of images.
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