In a faceoff, the Masters trump Picasso Oct 28, 2008
Perhaps it's as the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once put it, talking about Picasso's failure to appreciate Bonnard. "Picasso had no heart," he said. (International Herald Tribune)
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 Camera Oct 26, 2008
The Leica rangefinder cameras with interchangeable lenses became favorites of photojournalists and street photographers, with legendary users such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson. The Leicas were easy to carry in difficult situations, such as the battlefields of Spain and France. (Suite101.com)
Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia Oct 25, 2008
Standing out among the almost 250 authors represented in the exhibition are Lewis Hine, Walter Ballhause, Alexander Rodchenko, Morris Engel, Andr Kertsz, Weegee, Eugne Atget, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, Brassa, Robert Doisneau, Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, El Lissitzky, Dziga Vertov, Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Edward Steichen, August Sander, Franco Pinna, Francesc Catal-Roca, Ramon Masats, Oriol Maspons, Joan Colom, Xavier... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Black-and-white's golden era Oct 13, 2008
They are icons of photography now: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Lisette Model and Henri Cartier-Bresson. They are widely accepted as artists with a capital A, too, included in innumerable museum collections and enshrined in histories of photography and art. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Portrait of our times Oct 4, 2008
McFarlane makes a comparison with French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who worked with what was at hand, whether capturing the indecision of painter Pierre Bonnard or Henri Matisse at home with his white doves. Of course, what has changed since the photographic heyday of Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn or Richard Avedon is time and access. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pioneer of the 'Decisive Moment' Henri Cartier-Bresson Celebrated Sep 22, 2008
The Art Institute of Chicago presents the first exhibition to compare the images of legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson to the modern drawings, etchings, and paintings of his contemporaries in Paris. Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris--on view in the museum's Photography Gallery 1 from September 20, 2008 through January 4, 2009--provides a rare glimpse into the rich artistic context of Cartier-Bresson's early career ... From a young age, Henri Cartier-Bresson... (AbsoluteArts.com)
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Pioneer of the 'Decisive Moment' Henri Cartier-Bresson Celebrated - Art Institute of Chicago - absolutearts ... "Pioneer of the 'Decisive Moment' Henri Cartier-Bresson Celebrated" 2008-09-20 until 2009-01-04 Chicago, IL, USA ... The Art Institute of Chicago presents the first exhibition to compare the images of legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson to the modern drawings, etchings, and paintings of his contemporaries in Paris. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Cartier-Bresson centenary celebrated in France Sep 21, 2008
The destinies of some people take unpredictable turns, like that of Henri Cartier-Bresson ... Famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on Aug. 22, 1908, in Chanteloup, near Paris, as the eldest of five siblings ... This is the primary reason why the centenary exhibition combines the works of Walker Evans (1903-1975) and Henri Cartier-Bresson from the 1930s and 1940s in America. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Beyond recognition Sep 13, 2008
The working philosophy and results behind the artistry of Antonioli and Yang remind us of the guiding principles of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Approaching his craft like a Zen master, Cartier-Bresson believed that any thinking should be done before and after, never while, taking a photo. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Zurich exhibition illuminates Saul Steinberg Sep 11, 2008
The Romanian-born Steinberg, whose artistic circle included the Swiss Le Corbusier and Alberto Giacometti, as well as French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, should not be underestimated, said foundation director Sheila Schwarz. More than cartoons. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Through reality's lens, decisively Sep 7, 2008
"Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris" : Perhaps no other photographer captured as many memorable images as Cartier-Bresson did. To mark the centenary of the man who made "the decisive moment" one of the medium's defining concepts, the Art Institute of Chicago is drawing on its own collection to mount a show of Cartier-Bresson photographs as well as paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs by artists active in Paris during the 1920s and '30s. (Boston Globe)
LACMA Acquires Vernon Collection of... Aug 14, 2008
LACMA's world-renowned collection of photography includes important works by Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Andr; Kert;sz, L;szl; Moholy-Nagy, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Sebasti;o Salgado, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Carrie Mae Weems. The Vernon Collection. (Suite101.com)
Robert Lassam Jul 21, 2008
In his quiet and charming way he convinced many people of its value, even on one occasion, in the late 1960s, firmly but politely reminding the then director of the Victoria and Albert museum, Sir John Pope-Hennessy, of the importance of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Born in Harrow, Lassam, the eldest son of two school teachers, was educated at Vaughan Road primary school and Harrow grammar school. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Kulwant Roy: Indian history in a yellow crate of negatives Jun 17, 2008
His images may not be as well known as those of photographers like Margaret Bourke-White and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who went to India during this period, but they were popular at the time. By 1958, he was successful enough to embark on a world photographic tour, traveling to more than 30 countries over the course of three years. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Framing a Century': Photography from 1840-1940 Jun 10, 2008
It begins with the innovations of the British gentleman William Henry Fox Talbot, and concludes with the homespun classicism of the American Walker Evans, the studio experiments of Man Ray and, finally, the breathtaking moments captured by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Brassai, geniuses of the street. In between are the landscapes of Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray and Carleton E. Watkins; portraits by Nadar and Julia Margaret Cameron; and views of 19th- and early-20th-century Paris and France by... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The lure of the street May 31, 2008
In the 1930s, Robert Capa advised Henri Cartier-Bresson to call himself not an artist, but a photojournalist ... Combine Evans's delicately unflinching gaze - a friend remarked that, when photographing slums, Evans kept his gloves on - with Henri Cartier-Bresson's revelation of the fleeting poetry of the moment, and the ground is prepared for the exquisitely rendered, spontaneous choreography of the everyday revealed in Helen Levitt's street scenes. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Cornell Capa May 26, 2008
Soon, however, Cornell - who also altered his surname in imitation of Robert's free adaptation of that of the film director Frank Capra - was diverted into developing films for his brother, the Polish-born David "Chim" Seymour, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1948 all three would become the founders, with British photojournalist George Rodger, of Magnum Photos. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A brush with Picasso May 24, 2008
" Photographs in the exhibition by the likes of Brassai and Henri Cartier-Bresson attest to this. The paintings were simply part of the resources of Picasso's studio, along with the many postcards of African women he collected, reproductions of old masters and pieces of bric-a-brac picked up at flea markets. As he became increasingly successful, and was able to buy larger houses and studios, his collection continued to expand. He would never allow anyone into his studio to clean it. In life,... (Courier Mail)
Pioneer photojournalist Cornell Capa dies at 90 May 24, 2008
He later joined the Paris-based Magnum agency founded by his brother Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and others. He served as president of Magnum for four years. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
All human life May 21, 2008
This attitude worked for Brassa on his long nocturnal walks, and for Henri Cartier-Bresson, ever alert for his decisive moments in Paris, Mexico and Seville. Catalan photographer Joan Colom's marvelously atmospheric nocturnal images capture the prostitutes, drunks and sleaze of Barcelona's El Raval neighbourhood in Franco's Spain. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The rhythms of New England through a restless eye May 16, 2008
He liked to cite Henri Cartier-Bresson as his foremost influence. "Puddle Jumper," which shows a man striding over an expanse of melted slush, pays overt homage to Cartier-Bresson, the master of the "decisive instant." Even more, though, one can see Walker Evans in Reed's pictures - especially the ones of rural New England. (Boston Globe)
Scotiabank awards $5,000 Prize to Magnum Photos ... May 11, 2008
Magnum Photos was founded by the forefathers of documentary photography: Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David "Chim" Seymour, and George Rodger. Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. (Fox News)
Maltz exhibit is tribute to Israel’s past, present, future Apr 11, 2008
This cooperative was launched by photographers Robert Capa, David Seymour, George Rodger and Henri Cartier-Bresson just months prior to the birth of the state of Israel in 1948. Both Capa and Seymour were Jewish migrs from central Europe who shared an enormous enthusiasm for the struggle of the new arrivals to the fledgling nation and covered that story with deep affection. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Mike Figgis's best shot Apr 10, 2008
Inspirations: "Elliott Erwitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, the Magnum people.". High point: "Presenting my ex-wife's family with a large print of a photo of their house. My mother-in-law saw a figure in the window, started crying and said, "That's me as a baby and my mother holding me. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Philip Jones Griffiths Mar 24, 2008
He related it to Goya's etchings in The Disasters of War; indeed, his hero Henri Cartier-Bresson - the man whose picture had first inspired the 16-year-old Jones Griffiths at the Rhyl camera club - later wrote: "Not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones Griffith.". His portraits of soldiers in action or, as often, at ease, have an insider's conviction. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Artist sues his bank over investments that lost a fortune Mar 22, 2008
Images from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Matt Stuart, Jeff Mermelstein and Martin Parr. The American Scene. (Times Online)
Philip Jones Griffiths, war photojournalist, dies at 72 Mar 20, 2008
Griffiths was deeply influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, a founder of the photo agency Magnum, where Griffiths became a longtime member and served as president from 1980 to 1985. Besides Vietnam, Griffiths reported from dozens of other countries. (International Herald Tribune)
Picture perfect Mar 17, 2008
In Delhi, shows displaying works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pablo Bartholomew, Ram Rahman and a host of veteran snappers proved that it's gold rush season in the world of photography as there's a buying frenzy with both galleries and collectors suddenly putting photographs in their must-have list. In the West, galleries are known to have taken off art exhibitions to put up photographs. (Times of India)
Auction of iconic photos to fetch millions Mar 15, 2008
Works by Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus being offered ... NEW YORK - Iconic images by some of the 20th centurys most notable photographers, including Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Diane Arbus, are expected to fetch as much as $14. (MSNBC -- News)
'Presumed Innocence' presents kids as more than tiny adults Feb 11, 2008
There are famous names (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, Elliot Erwitt). There are famous names no one ever associates with children (Ansel Adams. (Boston Globe)
We are the children Feb 9, 2008
The 113 photographs and one video in "Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children" come from local collectors Anthony and Beth Terrana, who are drawn to pictures of children because of the "pure sense of what they were seeing and feeling." The photographs, by artists including Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dorothea Lange, show that no matter the place, no matter the time, kids will be kids. Opening reception today 3-5 p.m. Exhibit up through April 27. (Boston Globe)
Buzz Foto Debuts Celebrity Paparazzi Photo Retrospective In Los Angeles Jan 15, 2008
"Consider Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Helen Levitt; each took photos of individuals without permission and set out to sell them. Their iconic photographs imitate the paparazzi style and today hang in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Our Buzz Foto photographs have the potential to hang next to those great masters.". Henry Flores, co-owner for Buzz Foto and a former engineer, said, "We're pleased to host a first-ever gallery showing of paparazzi art. All of our photographers... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Andrés Henestrosa Morales, 101; writer promoted Zapotec Indian culture Jan 14, 2008
"One of Henestrosa's early sponsors was Jos? Vasconcelos Calder?n, the powerful Mexican education secretary who placed the young Henestrosa in school and gave him copies of classic books.Even as his renown grew as a writer among Mexico's intellectual classes, and he received a Guggenheim grant to study Zapotec culture in the United States, Henestrosa maintained a bohemian flair and the unpretentious charm of a "man of the street," said Adolfo Casta?n, a writer and member of the Mexican Academy... (Los Angeles Times)
Paris Photo 2007 during the transportation strikes Dec 2, 2007
The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation offered a splendid retrospective of Helen Levitt's work in New York, while Luigi Ghirri was featured at the Galerie Anne de Villepoix. Besides Artcurial, Italian artists were also featured, including Piergiorgio Branzi at the National Library of France; "Portrait about Moravia" by Elisabetta Catalano at the Italian Cultural Institute; Carlo Mollino at the Italian Chamber of Commerce; Pino Musi at Pioneer Investments and Round Trip -- an itinerary between... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
History of Photography Exhibitions Nov 28, 2007
The artistic achievements of photography during its first century are celebrated with masterworks by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), Nadar (1820-1910), Eugne Atget (1857-1927), Walker Evans (1903-1975), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), Man Ray (1890-1976) and Brassa (1899-1984), among others. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY USA: June 3-September 1, 2008. (Suite101.com)
Monroe exhibition may set Art Center records Sep 28, 2007
Among the photographers represented are Sam Shaw, Richard Avedon, Milton Green and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Also included are photos taken by amateurs such as Marilyn's onetime husband, playwright Arthur Miller. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Camera obscura Sep 23, 2007
Though Bown claims not to have been aware of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson until later in her career, her sensibility seems to have most in common with his. Cartier-Bresson too refused to allow his photography to be called art. (Guardian Unlimited)
Photographer Abelardo Morell is focus of new documentary ''Shadow of the House'' Sep 13, 2007
Along the way, we learn of Morell's discovery of photography, as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College ("The first couple of rolls I developed were like the DNA for my life"); his early emulation of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Henri Cartier-Bresson; and how becoming a father deepened him as an artist. That may sound like touchy-feely cant, but looking at Morell's images, we can see what he means. (Boston Globe)
Beijing preps for Olympics Aug 18, 2007
com), which last year took over a historic hotel, built in a French-Oriental style, where George Bernard Shaw and Henri Cartier-Bresson once checked in. By Western standards, Beijing's luxury accommodations are a bargain; generally they are less than $300 a night. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Hungarian art is a highlight at Maltz Museum Aug 10, 2007
In two small photographs of divers seemingly suspended in mid air, Kertsz captures what Henri Cartier Bresson, the founding father of modern photography, called the decisive moment. The exhibit s main appeal for this viewer lies in Hungary s post World War II paintings. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Focus on Women Aug 8, 2007
The international masters Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bert Stern, Bill Brandt and Edward Weston combine with the Australians Olive Cotton, Jon Lewis, David Moore, Max Dupain, Juno Gemes, David Potts and Robert Besanko to complete an evocative collective portrait of women. (Full disclosure requires I reveal I have a minor presence in this display. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Susan Meiselas: photographs from the edge Aug 1, 2007
One of just 4 female members among 52 active photographers at the agency founded by Robert Capa, George Rodger, David Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Meiselas is unusual in combining a pitch-perfect photographic instinct with articulate reflection about her field. She has been decorated with just about every award for bravery and is the author of some of the most searing photographs of conflict ever made. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* Safaris where the hunt is for the perfect picture Jun 13, 2007
The art of photography, "when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality," as Henri Cartier-Bresson once said, seemed to be beside the point. After dinner, the group retired to the Holiday Inn Express, which is about as nice as hotels get in Barstow. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Life is Sort of Like an Open (Face)Book Jun 13, 2007
And the other day, as I drove home with one of my tormenters in the passenger seat, she started laughing at the way I pronounced "Henri Cartier-Bresson." ... What could a site created by a student who was born three years after I started mispronouncing "Henri Cartier-Bresson" want with me. (The Ledger)
Celebrity Photo Agency Develops 'Paparazzi As An Art Form' May 9, 2007
Elterman compares Flores and staff to Henri Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans and Helen Levitt. "Bresson would shadow his subjects and wait for the right moment. Evans would descend the subway with a Leica under his overcoat to photograph life in a crowded subway in the greatest city in the world, New York. Evans trained Helen Levitt with his undercover craft; she then went on to produce her best work in the streets of Harlem in the mid-forties with friend and poet, James Agee.". (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Ansel Adams' America Mar 29, 2007
Henri Cartier-Bresson marveled that a man with such a brilliant eye had chosen "in this crisis, with the world maybe going to pieces - to photograph a landscape!". Though he took pictures of nature as a purely private benediction, later generations saw a component of political activism in his work. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
A better eye discovers the moments that matter more Mar 20, 2007
FOR much of the past century the decisively observed moment has been an article of faith among photographers, presided over by its most elegant priest, the French master of reportage Henri Cartier-Bresson. However, the rise of photo-based art has added something to photography's grammar. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Making still pictures move was Munkacsi's specialty Mar 19, 2007
Above and beyond its own considerable merits, it's one of the most important images in the history of 20th-century photography for the simple reason that it helped inspire the career of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Henri Cartier-Bresson ... What Munkacsi's picture helped bring about is bounteously apparent in "Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932-46," which also runs through April 29. (Boston Globe)
Bruce Davidson's 'encounters with the invisible' Mar 1, 2007
"I don't consider myself a documentary photographer," Davidson said at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, which is showing until April 22 his photographs of the civil rights movement in Alabama and Mississippi and of East 100th Street, a series taken in Spanish Harlem in New York from 1966-68 ... Davidson said he was influenced by some photographers as if he had inherited their molecules: Robert Frank, Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson, to whom he showed the "Widow" pictures in... (International Herald Tribune)
The Queen and I: Feb 9, 2007
Henri Cartier-Bresson at work. Meghan O'Rourkeposted Feb. 2, 2007. (Slate)
Portrait gallery Feb 9, 2007
Iconic photographers who came before her Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon favored restraint, subtlety and even visual starkness in their pictures. Not Leibovitz even if Avedon was an influence. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Incisive Moment: Feb 3, 2007
Rethinking Henri Cartier-Bresson ... Henri Cartier-Bresson at work. (Slate)
Two sets of eyes Jan 27, 2007
"That very photograph," Henri Cartier-Bresson later wrote, "was for me the spark that set fire to fireworks and made me suddenly realize that photography could reach eternity though the moment. ... I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with a camera. I said, 'Damn it,' I took my camera and went out into the street.". The International Center of Photography has matched a retrospective of the still-neglected Munkcsi with a selection of Cartier-Bresson's early but masterful efforts. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens Jan 3, 2007
Situated in the peace, love and revolution epicenter, Leibovitz took an Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to protests and parties, exquisitely capturing the mundane of the hippie world. That led to her working for Rolling Stone, where she came to define the San Francisco-based mag's look with keen portraits of the Rolling Stones on the road, the White House on the day Nixon resigned and, most significantly, her sessions with John Lennon in the early '70s and again just hours before he was shot in... (Variety)
