Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Decisive Moments of Street Photography Master

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[@TheArtOfStreetPhotography]

I really love the "Sale of Gold in the Last Days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai, China, 1949". It shows how he managed to get a good composition in a very challenging crowded scene.

[@passionographer]

Thanks for your comments on Bresson, I'm a true fan of his work. Most historical photographers are famous for just one image.Traveling put him in the right place right time making him famous for many images.

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you! I am happy you like it!

[@SandorFule]

Thanks, young man, for this humble but informative lesson.

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you very much!

[@arturkrzan7582]

In recent years most people focus too much on technical aspects of photography and tend to forget the most important... the emotional aspect. This separates craft from art.

[@arnonart]

I don't know where to start. I've been to photography since the beginning of the 80's. Since the very beginning I tried street photography. I wanted my photos to be real and not directed and at that time there were no privacy issues and hardly any cameras around. My first photos are from the old city in Jerusalem. Right after I started photography I embarked on a trip to Europe. One evening while photographing in Basel I run into an old man who took me home and showed me a book of Cartier Bresson. This photo you talked about at the end of the video, the boy with the wine bottles became instantly one of my all time favorites. Since then HCB is streaming in my veins. I have several books of him and visited a few of his exhibitions and for me he is a spiritual mentor. A few year subsequently, I shoot in Jerusalem my own version of the boy with the bottles, this time he carries an egg carton on his head. I call this photo “Eggotrip” I'm planing my own exhibition but because of the corona crisis I might do it through youtube. My exhibition is “Eyes wide shout” because I'm also very verbal (wrote and shoot my own articles in Finland's biggest magazines) I'd like to combine words and photos. Thanks for the great video!

[@aboutphotography]

Arnon Hubara wow that sounds pretty interesting! Do you have a website or instagram?

[@arnonart]

i don't have a website but i do have a very poor instagram account. i joined instagram a couple of months ago. the reason i didn't join earlier was my promiss to my youngest daughter that i won't join instagram and embaress her. LOL! i don't really cope with instagram. in my facebook accounrt by the same name you can find much more. i think i'll let you know when i'll make the video. that's the best solution. @@aboutphotography

[@arnonart]

i'll let you know as soon as possible!

[@aboutphotography]

Thanks!

[@arnonart]

@@aboutphotography kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYLSkIyArKx1rbs There's the slide show i promissed. i managed to surprise even myself. thanks for the push and i hope you'll enjoy it. please, forward it as much as you wish.

[@iainmacdonald7034]

Thank you so much for this engaging, succinct and really informative brief history of a man whose work we all know, but whose background and beliefs was certainly less well-known to me. I'm looking forward now to watching other videos on your channel. Best wishes.

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you! You have actually managed to find my first video of this type I have ever published. I hope you are going to like the other and hopefully also see the improving (in my opinion) quality :D Thank you!

[@jamesherd9132]

I met Henri Cartier Bresson In St Andrews Scotland The home of Golf He was With his wife martine frank it was an exhibition Magmum Women Photographers in the national galleries of scotland St Andrews university has brilliant arcive of early photography.. I photographed Eve Arnold Martine Frank Sesan Merisalis and Inge Morath . I sent them a print and got a post card from Inge Morath with a thankyou. dated 10 th dec 1999. It was one of the best days of my life.

[@aboutphotography]

Wow thats so cool! Do you still have it. What was the picture on that postcard?

[@jamesherd9132]

@@aboutphotography It was a portcard ireland 1954 photograph by inge morath. it has a picture of two farmers with sticks and three pigs lying on the street. if you go to the magnum website it is there.

[@aboutphotography]

Ok I will check that out! Thanks

[@candidonthestreetanupamgos5283]

Wonderful channel. Very informative. Love your contents. Best wishes!!

[@clivetaylor6501]

My favourite photo by HCB is the last one, the little boy carrying the wine bottles. I think this is because it is imperfect, so it's sort of a natural, everyday snapshot catching the wonderful emotion of the little boy, it's not a cliché. He's looks so proud and full of fun.

[@GarethDanks]

Very interesting. A lot to learn from the experts of the past. 😊👍🏻

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@acidsnow5915]

what an insightful video, i love HCB, he made some of the best pictures! really enjoyed this, hope to see more. and thanks for sharing all this super dope content with us

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Thank you! I am glad you liked it!

[@sherigust4204]

Excellent as the ones before Martin! Looking for the next one.

[@aboutphotography]

Oh thank you! Hopefully from now on its gonna be every wednesday 🙃

[@TRAVELWP]

This was a most excellent video. I learned a lot about Bresson !

[@aboutphotography]

Great to hear! You might want to check also this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV6shqyZnKl4hJo :)

[@guidememx5405]

I consider Cartier bresson my mentor, because of him I get involved in photography and now I even have a youtube channel

[@aboutphotography]

Yes, he was wonderful photographer! 😊

[@davehandelman2832]

Val d'aosta.... The woman up the stairs with the birds. So incredible

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🙂

[@MariusGeorgescu1956]

Thank you for remind me why HCB is so great.😊

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you 😊! I am happy you found it useful.

[@ObservingBeauty]

Great video !

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Glad you enjoyed it

[@carbonejack]

Wonderful presentation. This is the second visit to your site (which I've subscribed to) and I am impressed by your subject matter and presentation. Thanks. And I learned the proper pronunciation of Henri Cartier Bresson's name.

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Jack Carbone thank you! I am happy you like it and that someone finds it useful! See you around!

[@Lavi-Aemilia-Astori]

very well explained, but at 4:21 there is a mistake, in 1930th there is no leica m3 first leica he got was I believe the Leica I. edit: typo mistake for me

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Oh thank you, I think I ment Leica in general an I end up using the M3 pic. Howevet it is probably that I made a mistake 😅 thank you for your comment, I am happy you still liked the video! See you around!

[@mhsvz6735]

Thank you for another excellent video!

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you, it was one of my very first videos 😊

[@agarwalsonika7]

Thank you for your amazing video about HCB

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you! You are too kind! I am happy you liked it!

[@BobsErik]

Informative and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing.

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Thank you! I am happy you liked it!

[@BMelendez23]

These videos are amazing ! Keep them coming

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Thank you! I am happy you liked it!

[@alanbecker6728]

Excellent....Thank you!

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Alan Becker I am happy you liked it!

[@nblanca67]

Amazing man!

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Glad you think so! Thank you for your comment. See you around!

[@eugenegarcia3453]

Love that, I will have to visit Magnum and buy some of that for my collection! Who are you gonna do next? I like your vids. Keep up the work!

[@aboutphotography]

Awesome! To be honest I don't know yet. Maybe as we are going to travel to Asia I will try to focus on some local artists 🤔

[@PhotalkbyKJH]

Street photography is great 👍

[@aboutphotography]

Yes 🙃😊

[@Microtimer1000th]

Important to say that there was no decisive moment... Contact sheets show there were various decisive moments of the same scene. So not that decisive.

[@aboutphotography]

Surely one of them is more decisive than others 😀

[@laurencegoldman4639]

Great video. Thanks.

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@kevinkelley4376]

I like his Mexico shots..📸❤

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Yeah those are cool!

[@Rajupkd]

Wow interesting!!

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Sathyameva Jayathe thank you! 🙏

[@richardmagnan6475]

FINE, accurate... .

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richard magnan thank you! 😊

[@filmic1]

Thank-you. Lovely insight! Liked and sub'd!

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Thank you I’m happy you liked it! See you around!

[@ljcbvideo]

Certainly the boy with the wine bottles is the best if not the best ever....

[@aboutphotography]

Yeah I love that shot as well!

[@Weird_Quests]

Amazing content!

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Thank you! I am glad you liked it!

[@Weird_Quests]

All About Street Photography my pleasure :)

[@Just-a-Guy1]

My favorite Bresson photo: J'Accuse!

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I am not sure which one was it 😅

[@Just-a-Guy1]

@@aboutphotography It's the photo taken of a former concentration camp guard who is standing beside a table. At the table are sitting some authorities. In front of the guard who is obviously ashamed of what she had done while being a guard, is a woman whose anger is beginning to swell. Her furor and hurt is all over the expression on her face. Once seen, it's hard to forget.

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Brian Gagnon oh yeah I see. That is a powerful image!

[@arnonart]

@@Just-a-Guy1 a real strong one!

[@Wiktor2802]

I think someone ate all the 'the' words that came out of his mouth.

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:D

[@MermaidsandGems]

I like it

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Thank you! 😊

[@krishartsphotography5643]

Nice :)

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Thank you!

[@byfordjohn7380]

H C-B took thousands of images that never saw the light of day! The negatives were destroyed.

[@passionographer]

Thats a shame didnt know that

[@robertbutts9835]

So if he was documenting life at anything was he really a street photographer or a documentary photographer ? And he didn't consider himself to be that ? I dislike the term Street photography Garry Winogrand said it says nothing of who you are .

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Mahmood R Thomas Yeah, I don’t think he would say himself I am this or that kind of photographer. I would say Street photography is a genre where you can probably just put someone who meets some kind of criteria. For me the street photographer is someone who is wondering streets and making photographs for the purpose of making them (like a fine art) and documentary photograph maybe someone like W. E. Smith who has an aim and shoots the photographs for the purpose of making an essay or documenting some issue etc. So in the end putting someone in some kind of box is usually according to his most famous work. I mean it is not like Cartier-Bresson Or Capa never shot portraits but I would not say they were portrait photographers. I guess there is no hard line between documentary and street photography. But for me when I look at the Behind the Gara St. Lazare it seem to be an example of street photography since it is just a “decisive moment” not connected to anything else. With Capa for example when you look at his Falling Soldier it is a part of bigger project documenting the war in Spain. But thats just how I feel that. I hope that makes sense :D

[@thepirateshoots]

what he said "go out and shoot jpeg for a while" 9:17

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Rainer Büsching yeah 😊

[@killahbong]

He didn't developed his own pictures and HCB first book was selling like hotcakes.

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Yeah he definitely didn’t like developing the pictures.

[@rickcastillo7437]

Good info, thanks.

[@aboutphotography]

Thank you! 😊🙏