I gave a lesson on subject of my expertise when I began my teaching degree, as we all did. Mine was digital media, and how to use a digital camera. The brief I gave my ‘students’ was to do a Jeffery Smart type image. I demonstrated this using a little tiny digital auto camera-you can get good stuff out of them-it’s just knowing how. I was pretty happy with this, and I love Jeffery Smart. (all about lighting and composition) [side note] Have you seen one of his painting in the flesh? I love the composition and colours-but they are so scratchy! Didn’t expect that. Not lush, as the colours imply-they looks better reproduced. [another side note] I’m glad he doesn’t give in to conjecture about what his work means-it his style, and it works. anyhoo enjoy
No, this isn’t a history lesson, it is a small piece of my life and how I came to where I am at the present. I was born in Liverpool, En…
No, this isn’t a history lesson, it is a small piece of my life and how I came to where I am at the present. I was born in Liverpool, England which makes me a ‘scouser’. I grew up mostly in Lancashire with diversions to Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Gibraltar. I am a total Lancastrian at heart. When I was 17, I joined the British Army but I had a passion for photography even then. While in the army I became a part time assistant to Royal and social photographer Tom Hustler. Tom was an extremely competent photographer who had never passed a photographic course in his life. I met my partner during that time and eventually moved over to Australia. / I base a lot of my work on the style of Henri Cartier-Bresson as I am always looking for that moment in time, but I am also looking for the reality of life. / I sometimes work with a good friend Matt Setright who is on this site, who I am mentoring.
Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1932 photograph “Behind the Gare Saint Lazare”
Lego reconstruction of Henri Cartier Bresson’s 1933 photograph ‘Madrid’.
Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1938 photograph “By the Marne River”
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educa…
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~William Albert Allard, “The Photographic Essay” I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ~Edward Steichen / Edward Steichen – The Flatiron (1905)
An attitude that’s common with people using a digital camera is that with the virtually unlimited number of shots, it doesn’t matter if y…
An attitude that’s common with people using a digital camera is that with the virtually unlimited number of shots, it doesn’t matter if you screw up. Check the LCD, adjust, do it again, repeat until you get it right. I’ve never agreed with this. Sometimes the opportunity is over in an instant and you never get that second shot. Or the third, fourth, fiftieth. Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the world’s most celebrated photographers. The father of street photography, a founder of the illustrious Magnum Photos. He also published a book titled in English, The Decisive Moment. “Photography is not like painting, there is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative,” he said. “Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1957. True, not every photographic situation is going to require this, sometimes you do get that second chance, but really, if you can do it the first time, it gives you more time to take different photographs, explore your limits and when that moment appears, you’re ready.
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A Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1954 photograph taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris of a boy proudly carrying two bottles of wine.
This is a gallery space in the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation in Paris
Via Garibaldi – Trapani – Sicily – Italy
Pencil on paper
A Lego recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1933 photograph simply titled “Seville, Spain”. A photo I’ve been meaning to take ever since I got my 35mm (and therefore wide-ish angle) macro lens.
I found enough to indicate that the modern idea of the “novelty” of the Leica and its position at the bottom of the photographic rung (at…
A little piece looking at how Leica was perceived in the mid to late 30’s as it became the darling of the street shooters
Fine art black and white print – available matted or framed.
A tribute to Henri Cartier Bresson. I am in love with this location. It is my muse in everything. I take home bits and pieces with me every time I go. I now own a book of polaroids, a temp scribe, several gauges, and some rusted keys. As well as some patient files which had never been released.
The golden cliche of shooting with the sun behind your back just never fails, just not always necessary. / I just got that title since my school instructor was talking about that topic last night in school, and this photo reminded me of it. I took the inspiration for this from Henri Cartier Bresson’s Street Photography from his early works. He’s my hero! Location : Terminal Drive Avenue, Vancouver BC, Canada
The Decisive moment / A recording of that one moment in time when all the elements line up to allow the artist to capture the perfect co…
The Decisive moment / A recording of that one moment in time when all the elements line up to allow the artist to capture the perfect combination of light, shadow, color, action, expression and emotion to form the perfect image. A moment that can be expected maybe anticipated but not created. For if the image is created, as in the studio, it can be recreated time and time again and is not a fleeting moment in time. Since a decisive moment is unplanned and involves action or the temporary positioning of key elements it typically refers to dynamic developing situations. The term Decisive Moment was first coined by the noted French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson considered by many to be the father of modern photojournalism Cartier-Bresson’s, The Decisive Moment, 1952 contains the term “the decisive moment” now synonymous with Cartier-Bresson: “There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.” A Henri Cartier-Bresson capture of a man jumping through a puddle / Cartier –Bresson believed that “Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact” Chinese soldiers jumping in unison / “Photography is not like painting,” Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post in 1957. “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative,” he said. “Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” Medics care for a motorcycle crash victim / Robert Capa capturing the instant of death. / J.Scott Applewhites Pulitzer Prize winning photo of US President Bill Clinton, seconds before admitting he had lied about an affair. / “The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression… . In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson. _“I had just discovered the Leica. It became the extension of my eye, and I have never been separated from it since I found it. I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to “trap” life to preserve life in the act of living. Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph. . . “_Bresson
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