Word: cartiere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...America most of us experience. Phil Stahl Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. Joe, you may not want to hear this, but I have always considered you to be part of the Anger-Industrial Complex. I just never had a name for it before. Randy Daughenbaugh Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S. Cartier-Bresson's Legacy Thanks to James Nachtwey for his appreciation of fellow photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson [Aug. 16]. Nachtwey's descriptions of Cartier-Bresson's artful shots made me aware of all the details that a single photo, like the one of Spanish children playing on a street, can encompass...
...owner Julien Levy hung the black-and-white images of three unsung photographers on his walls, and all three went on to make huge contributions to the 20th century's image bank. The exhibition, entitled Documentary and Anti-graphic Photographs, showcased the early work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. This week, just a month after the death of Cartier-Bresson, the longest-surviving member of the trio, the first-ever recreation of Levy's exhibition opens at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. Although the three legends had distinct styles, each trained his lens...
When I decided to become a photographer, he became my virtual teacher. I didn't have enough money to buy books, so I would go to bookstores every day, stand in the aisles and study the works of great photographers. I quickly learned that Cartier-Bresson was the foundation of contemporary photography. I looked at his pictures every day, sometimes for hours at a time. They never got old. There was always something I hadn't seen before, a hidden meaning right there on the surface, a new formal insight, a sudden smile, a subtle barb aimed at hypocrisy...
...born and bred in France, but he was mercurial, synchronized to the changing tides of history. He was in China on the eve of revolution and with Mahatma Gandhi 15 minutes before his death. But Cartier-Bresson was not a reporter. The world in process was his raw material. He was difficult to define, and he could not be contained, as the Germans found out when he escaped from a prison camp during World War II and joined the Resistance...
DIED. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, 95, pioneering photojournalist who helped transform black-and-white photography into a high art; in the south of France. (See page...