2. Who
✤ Born 1908, Died 2004.
✤ Born in France, and originally a painter, Bresson later turned to
photography.
✤ Traveled all over the world to take pictures, especially after forming
‘Magnum Photos’ with fellow photographers Robert Capa, David
Seymour, and George Rodger.
3. What
✤ A street photographer, Bresson took many pictures of everyday life in
many different enviroments ranging from the U.S. during WWII, to
the Soviet Union just before it’s fall.
4. ✤
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Siphnos, Greece, 1961"
5. ✤
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Marilyn Monroe during the making of "The Misfits", 1962
7. ✤ “Brie” by Henri Cartier-Bresson, June 1968, Brie, France
8. Why
✤ Originally a painter, Bresson thought of photography as just a way
into painting.
“All I care about these days is painting — photography has never
been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.”
9. Where
✤ The United States, France, India, Mexico, China, Japan, Canada, the
Soviet Union (Russia)
10. When
✤ Photographed from 1931 - 1975 (Retired from photography)
11. How
✤
Camera: Leica 35 mm. Normal 50mm lenses, or wide angle lenses.
✤ Never used a flash. Never cropped prints, always left the first
millimeter of clear negative around the image resulting in a black
border around the image.
