Posts Tagged ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson’
Secrets of a negative
07Jan12
John Loengard: “Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St Lazare, 1932. Paris Hands: Georges Févre, 5/11/87″ Magnum photographer John Loengard photographed the actual negative of Cartier-Bresson’s famous image, “Behind the Gare St Lazare, 1932″. It reveals some fascinating secrets about this picture. Inverting the image in Photoshop shows how it would look in a contact print. […]
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Behind the Gare St Lazare
07Jan12
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St Lazare, Paris, 1932 Cartier-Bresson’s famous photograph was shot behind the Gare St Lazare, the large railway station in the north of the city. He was shooting through an iron fence, across a flooded yard, with the rear of the station in the background. I’ve figured out the location of […]
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The Decisive Moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, 1952. Cover, Henri Matisse I recently had the privilege of looking through Cartier-Bresson’s 1952 book, The Decisive Moment. It sells for $2000 these days. The Decisive Moment is a legendary book, a retrospective of his photographic work that established his prestige and inserted a new phrase into photographic terminology… “…if […]
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