HenriCartierBresson Photos

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Michelle Dollois

Some of His Work

Alicante 1932 Black and White film

The Allée du Prado 1932 Black and White film

Downtown 1947 Black and White film

Hyères 1932 Black and White film

Brie 1968 Black and White film

Aquila 1951 Black and White film

Liverpool 1962 Black and White film

Shanghai 1948 Black and White film

Trieste 1933 Black and White film

Hyde Park in the Grey Drizzle 1937 Black and White film

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He studied in Paris with André Lhote  –  nsp re art er‐   resson to pa nt

•   1929:

studied literature and painting at Cambridge

•   Became

interested in photography

after seeing the work of Eugène

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‐ camera in 1933  –   

ecame

•   Started  –  1st on

•   1937

s camera o c o ce

making documentary films in1937 medical aid in Spanish Civil War

started reportage photography

•   Working

with film director Jean Renoir taught him how to ca ture the essential moment

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•   1947

had exhibit in MoMA and founded

•   1955

France honoured him with an exhibition

 –  400

of his photos

•   1960s

he focused on film and then drawing in his later years

•   Died

Au ust 3 2004

“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of  some situation that was in the process of  unrolling itself before my eyes”

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•  –  He

covered the chrome bits of camera with black

 –  Hid it

under a handkerchief 

•   Reportage

style and content

•   Documentary

films

•

capturing the “ moment” photojournalism

Dublin 1952

Children Playing Cowboys With Guns

1951

•   Focal

Point

 –  Contrast  –   Leadin

lines

•   Rule

of thirds

 –   Pillar  –   Boys

•   Movement  –   Curb  –   –   Gaze

• •   Youthful •

  nnocent

•   Photos

aren’t posed

 –    ap

ures movemen an emotion

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ompos on  –  Use of line

and shape

 Alberto Giacometti, rue d'Alésia, Paris 1961

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‐ filmmaker, drawer, and painter

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He is best known for his work in p oto ourna sm an captur ng t e moment”

ec s ve

He is skilled in creating strong compositions

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