Skippy Sanchez Posted March 25, 2007 Share #1 Posted March 25, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) The April, 2007 Smithsonian Magazine has an article on a recently-published scrapbook of Henri Cartier-Bresson's early work. The article is not online yet, but reads, in part: "If you want to see Cartier-Bresson when he was still indecisive -- about what to print, what to show and what to save -- look at the scrapbook he put together in 1946, now reconstructed and published as "Henir Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook, Photographs 1932-1946.' It contains multiple versions of many of his iconic photographs. And there's a great story behind it..... "From the reconstructed book, it's clear that Cartier-Bresson didn't just point and decisively shoot. He found promising settings, lay in wait and took many shots, both vertical and horizontal.... "So did his decisiveness lie in his famously ruthless selection of a single shot from each campaign? "It [his book, 'The Decisive Moment'] might be called "The I-can't-quite-decide-which-image-looks-more-decisive-Moment." Sounds like he made pictures the way most of use do, huh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 Hi Skippy Sanchez, Take a look here Smithsonian Magazine article on H-C Bresson. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
budrichard Posted March 25, 2007 Share #2 Posted March 25, 2007 I purchased the book about a month ago and while persuing the book, that was exactly my conclusion. That was the first I had seen additional shots of his famous photos.-Dick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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