Henri Cartier-Bresson

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first image in 1826. The film was bad quality but the photo taken from Joseph's window showed specific techniques like symmetry, contrast in blacks, whites and tones of gray and had sharp angles and lines drawing the viewer in different directions. A photo is a window into what the photographer is seeing in their world, like Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Consequently, Henri Cartier and Gregory Crewdson used techniques to emphasise and evoke different meanings and feelings towards the viewer. Whether, this was happiness or uneasiness, staged or not, the images are a portal into the photographer's world. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a skilled photographer that worked solely in capturing the decisive moment of everyday…

In 1908, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, a commune located in the north of France. An early aficionado of the arts, strongly influenced by his father – a textile merchant –, and his uncle, who was a gifted painter. During his youth, Cartier-Bresson found great joy in literature and happily read the works of prominent authors such as Dostoyevsky and Rimbaud, but also passionately studied painting. At age 19, Cartier-Bresson studied painting under André Lhote,…

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on August 22nd, 1908 in Chanteloup, France. Cartier-Bresson had five siblings, Cartier-Bresson being the oldest. His family were privileged growing up due to his father was a textile manufacturer. His whole life he was interested in the arts and was inspired by his uncle who was a painter (Oden). Many members of his family were also interested in art. He went to school in Paris where he developed an interest in literature and art. In 1927 Cartier-Bresson studied…

1. Analyse Cartier-Bresson’s “West Berlin, West Germany” 1962, Gelatine Silver Print. 300 Words. a. Briefly discuss Cartier-Bresson’s historical background, influences and objectives. Henri cartier- bresson was born on the 22nd of august in 1908 in France and died august 3 2004. Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer whose humane, spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism as an art form. Cartier- bresson personal influences was his uncle Louis because henri and his uncle spent…

The candid approach is photographing the subject without them knowing which this came from the pioneer of street photography Henri Cartier Bresson and his decisive moment. The decisive moment is method which involved being in a particular place, at a particular time to capture a particular moment. Throughout looking at the photographers, I will be looking at the themes considered in their works and I will look at how they have considered the decisive moment and how they have used candid…

the archaeological record to provide the answers regarding the past. He highly relies on the archaeological record (ceramic styles, design) to determine information on identity, politics and interrelationships between the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and Huron-Wendat people. Opinions in Place of Conclusions: These are unsupported assertions which Gibbon (2014) suggests are opinions. Therefore, the following are opinions asserted in place of conclusions: ¬ Ramsden (2016:6) suggests that his…

was only to later be adopted by colonials for their own purposes. The evidence for pre-Columbian scalping is diverse and convincing. While direct evidence from pristine pre-Columbian Indian societies is impossible, the accounts of the first European observers provide the best proxy. Many of the very first European explorers to reach the new world were, without direct encouragement, introduced to scalping. It quickly became apparent that scalping was innately tied to intertribal warfare and…

The role of depth in inciting the other senses has been discussed, but what if there was no depth and the entire composition was as flat as it could be. Flatness relieves a painting of the sculptural effect, but does it only present a space inhabitable to man? As far as this assessment is accurate, Greenberg fails to factor in what type of space is represented in flatness. Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio is a very flat painting, with everything in two dimensions. This painting agrees with in the…

Henri Fayol was a French engineer and manager in a mine industry and formed the theory to create the base of business administration and business management that is used today. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1841. He joined an engineering school in Lyon which is the second largest city of France. By the age of 19, he graduated as a mine engineer in 1860. As a engineer he joined Rambourg and Co at Boigues. He was the first engineer who came up with the solution to various kinds of problem in…

Henri Fayol, born 29 July 1841 in Istanbul and deceased on the 19th of November 1925, was a French mining director and engineer, who analyzed and synthesized a theory of management called Fayolism. Fayol’s motivation was not financial, as he had developed his theory at the late age of 75, after a lifetime of collecting and recording observations, while pursuing his career as the manager of a successful metallurgy. The roots of his work may have sprouted from his private life, respectively…