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...explicit acknowledgment of the camera's presence, Arbus shunned the technique popularized by Henri Cartier Bresson called "the decisive moment." This technique implies an unobtrusive use of the camera to catch people at the exact instant of time when they reveal a significant characteristic. From the photographs which result, it is easy to distill general truths that treat people only in a simplistic relationship to the larger mass of humanity...
Dominique's story, in fact, avoids becoming a cliché only because her breakthrough was so extraordinarily easy. "I found her on the telephone," says Robert Bresson, who directed her in her first film, Une Femme Douce. "When I heard her voice, I guessed that she was beautiful." Like most women famed for their enigmatic charm, Dominique cannot understand what the fuss is all about. Now, far beyond her flaming youth, she does not lead such an unusual life. Though she and Marquand have no plans to marry, they are looking for a house in Provence, where they...
There are perceptions that people can never fully experience without photography. There is the type of scene caught by Cartier-Bresson-people running across a Paris street. That is action we would see only from the corner of our eye; yet he captures it permanently. His picture is not rigidification of the mobile; it is an entrapment of motion. Analogously, in Ansel Adams' monumental scenic pictures, the world stops for human time to flow...
...Condamne a Mort S'est Echappe (A Man Escaped), by Robert Bresson. Winthrop JCR. 7:30, May 18. Free...
Mouchette Harvard Epworth Church. 7, April 13, $1. Machorka - Muff With Not Reconcile, The Bridegroom and The Comedienne and The Pimp. 7, April 16. Free, Une Femme Douce by Robert Bresson. 7, April 20. Tauw by Ousmane Sembene with Walkover by Jerzy Skolimowski. 7, April...