Henri Cartier-Bresson

George-Étienne Cartier September 6, 1814, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. He came from a wealthy family who claimed to be very distant relatives of the famous French explorer Jacques Cartier. As there was no school at Saint-Antoine, he was first educated by his mother. In 1824 he entered the college of Montreal, he was a smart and hard working student. He completed his secondary education in 1831, and then started his legal training. He became a lawyer in 1835 and also got involved…

There, he began to establish photojournalism as an art, until he met Paul Strand, another photographer now experimenting with film. Inspired, Cartier-Bresson left photography completely in order to pursue this newly found interest. He humbly worked under filmmaker Jean Renoir as an assistant and helped in created some of Renoir’s feature films. Yet, Cartier-Bresson craved presenting actual stories about reality, an interest better practiced in documentary style, but his inspiration was…

atmosphere of the park through the representation of the women sitting contently. Though she is alone and the weather is drizzly, the woman is shown in a relaxed position with no rush or obligation, just appreciating her time to herself. As for Cartier-Bresson’s camera technique the focus played a crucial role in capturing the essence of the park. The woman of the photograph is represented sitting on the park benches with no one around her. She is the lone figure, thus grabbing the viewer’s…

On October 26th, Catherine Clark from MIT came and talked to the class about Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs. Bresson had the ability to capture average life in the action of the moment. In 1948 Bresson was sent to China to take pictures of China as a communist nation during a civil war. He stayed there until 1949 and his photographs appeared in many magazines. He had a book made of his pictures called D’une Chine A L'autre. Clark’s role in this is to reconstruct his story and the story…

World War II across Europe and many other popular wars which shuck the world. Capa had various contributions to the photography we all enjoy today. Capa is one of the founders of the Magnum Photos with a French photographer in the person of Henri Cartier-Bresson it was the first cooperative agency for worldwide practising photographers.…

In this floor, we learned about a man named Henri Cartier-Bresson. He was a poet and dancer originally from Java which is now known as Indonesia. India had just attained independence Britain in August of the year 1947. At the time of independence, India became majority Hindu but constitutionally a secular…

the photograph one can say that the subjects within the photograph have not been altered but true to themselves. Henri Cartier-Bresson had said that “ If the photographer is to have a chance of achieving a true reflection of a person’s world- which is as much outside him as inside him- it is necessary that the subject of the portrait should be in a situation normal to him” (Cartier-Bresson 3). As a photograph is only able to show what is captured in frame, one that shows subjects that are…

The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet photographed by the French photojournalist Marc Riboud was captured on October 21, 1967. The location was an anti- Vietnam war protest that took place in the American capital at the Pentagon. The girl in the photo is 17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir. The protest involved 100,000 participants’ vs 2,500 soldiers. Riboud captured a fleeting moment, that of a girl offering a flower to the soldiers and the spirit of…

for your goals and set a higher standard for yourself always perfect your talent and be a great achiever for yourself. Mann is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York . In 1995, she was featured in an issue of "Aperture." On Location with: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Graciela Iturbide, Barbara Kruger, Sally Mann, Andres Serrano, Clarissa Sligh" which was illustrated with photographs. Mann has achieved so much in her photographer career and has enjoyed a lot of success and continues to be successful…

of my own work displayed within a gallery at school and am actively involved in an online photography sharing website. My photography A Level exposed me to what I consider to be some of the greatest photographers, such as Annie Leibovitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Anna Gaskell – all of whom have…