"It's putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis."/ Fotografiar es colocar la cabeza, el ojo y el corazon en un mismo eje (spanish version)
Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed him.
During my 3 years in the university , Cartier-Bresson was one of the photographers who was studied in History of photography classes as one of the masters of the modern photojournalism. And since I knew about him and his work as an artist, I really love it, especially his "street photography". The Surrealists approached photography in the same way that Aragon and Breton...approached the street: 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. (Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Early Work)
Also photography inspired him to stop painting and to take it seriously. He said once "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant". During his entire life he had the opportunity to document three decades on assignment for Life and other journals like the Spanish civil war, the liberation of Paris in 1944, the 1968 student rebellion in Paris, the fall of the Kuomintang in China to the communists, the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the Berlin Wall, and the deserts of Egypt. Along those events he photographed also remarkable artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti and so on but one of his most renowned pictures has been Behind the Gare St. Lazare where he just captured the decisive moment and stop it for always.
Since I saw this picture along with the work of another French great photographer Atget who I ll dedicate a post in another moment , I wanted at some point to imitate in a good way and specially I wanted to honor them in views like the juxtaposition seen for example in the picture shown and mentioned above by Cartier Bresson as well as the work done by Eugene Atget in Paris of Trades, Shops and Window-Displays where he also emphizes the the real and unreal view of the world of the 1920's
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| Meanswear Shop, 1926 |
Finally I want to end this post dedicated to Cartier-Bresson with a two pictures of my work already done which honor him. Enjoy it!!!
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