Thursday, October 3, 2013
Artist
Henry Cartier-Bresson was born August 22, 1908 and died August 3, 2004 in Montjustin, France. He was a French photographer and considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He had a very surrealist approach to photography and saw that ordinary photos contain a lot of unintended unpredictable meaning. In 1937 he married a Javanese dancer, Ratna Mohini. They lived in Paris together on a servant flat with a large studio with a small bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. Cartier almost only used the Leica 35 mm rangefinder camera with a normal 50mm lenses or occasional wide angle for landscapes. Below are some of my favorite images by Henry Cartier-Bresson. I really like the angles he gets and his pictures of stairs look good.
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We can learn so much from him, one huge lesson for today's photographers is that it doesn't take a lot of very expensive equipment and the latest cameras to be a great photographer, it takes a great eye. And the dedication to take your camera everywhere and take photographs constantly.
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