Word: leicas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...felt that the only control the photographer should have--the only way of imposing himself on his subject--was camera angle and distance, and that even these should be used with care. But even these he forsook when in brief intervals he took to the Chicago streets with a Leica or rode the subways with the lens of his camera peeking out between two buttons of his coat. In Chicago he took an almost fixed stance, photographing people on one street corner. On the subways he had no idea how he was framing his subjects. Even in his latest color...
While the 250,000 Japanese tourists in Europe this summer evoke mixed emotions, the invasion by Japanese merchants causes major concern. They have captured 28% of Italy's motorcycle market and 48% of its tape-recorder market. In West Germany, home of the Leica, half the cameras sold are Japanese. In the nine Common Market countries, the Japanese have cornered nearly three-quarters of the fast-growing sales of small electronic calculators. Sales of Japanese cars (368,000 units in Western Europe last year), steel, office machines and optical equipment are also rising considerably. Overall, Japanese exports to Western...
Cradled in the crook of his arm or clutched tightly in his palm, the camera is his constant companion. At any instant, any place, Henri Cartier-Bresson may suddenly lift his battered Leica to eye level, click the shutter and return instantly to whatever he was doing before what he calls "the decisive moment." Capturing such moments-usually joy, sadness, love, a memory reflected in a face or posture-has been Cartier-Bresson's life and profession for more than three decades. He has become the master of the documentary photograph...
Down with Color. Simplicity and frugality are trademarks of Cartier-Bresson. He works with the same Leica for years before reluctantly replacing it, and seldom employs filters or anything other than the standard 50-mm. lens. He never uses artificial lighting, never crops a negative for emphasis or effect. Says LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, himself a master: "In the area of reportage, he is definitely without peer...