The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780893818753
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Page: 109

Composition is an important aspect of good photographs. The first review I've chosen to post is of a collection of writing by the epitome of the reportage photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson; The Mind's Eye, Writings on Photography and Photographers. 1 – About Photographers A great photographer has, above everything else, a great eye. I have always found Barthes's Lover's Discourse and Incidents more inspiring than Camera Lucida, for photographers as well as writers on photography – and inspiring in a more oblique, tangential way. Case in point: my new column for Discover, on the subject of the mind's eye. Camera gear is important but secondary. I've been interested in getting between Missy Prince's mind's eye and camera for a while now—her photographs beckon more from me and I was excited to get an opportunity to read her words. I do however feel that thousands of "professional" photographers find great joy in naively labeling themselves as artists. In these terms, the "eye" is everything that is constitutive of seeing what is seen, and thus includes the photographer's or viewer's mind as well. Great photographs are the result of acute seeing abilities. An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers). The mind's eye swarmed with visions of shelves groaning under the weight of Dean Koontz books, hotel rooms adorned with prints of moronic mountain ranges, and Waldorf schoolteachers across the land galvanizing the little brats . Cartier-Bresson was a co-founder of Magnum Photos and the master of the decisive moment. I often roll my mind's eye when people speak of photography in the same breath as music, painting, or writing. Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers – The Father of the candid shot. Writing about the brain can sometimes bring me amazingly close to my readers–so close that I feel like I'm inside their minds. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers. Here I want to offer some Read it as a loose list of items written as they crossed my mind and that I wanted to share. Admin June 3, 2012 Art, Architecture & Photograph Leave a comment (3). I have written about it at length in my books and my essays, and I continue to do so.