Henri Cartier-Bresson France Paris 1952

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To quickly recount Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photograph, FRANCE Paris 1952, we will commence with the fact that it is black-and-white. Cartier-Bresson preferred to capture photographs in gray scale. It included many shades of gray. The background to the photograph consisted of a gloomy gray sky, the dark black frame of the tower, and a couple walking with wrapped in each other’s arms in the distance. The couple seems to symbolize the love that can be seen in the Eiffel Tower. The gloomy sky and reflective foreground (towers platform) indicates that it rained the day the picture was captured. In the reflective foreground you can slightly see the frame and the couple. In the frame you can pin-point many shapes varying from triangles, rectangles,

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