Photography

Dorothea Lange and Henri Cartier-Bresson

Introduction

A French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the artists united towards formulating a new approach to deliberate photography Henri Cartier-Bresson , by his denial of the artistic ' modern artphotography , has taken sequences of pictures that in their freshness dignified grace in appearance and truth remain works of art within their own radical esthetic (Eisinger 129 . On the contrary , works of Dorothea Lange , American documentary photographer , are motivated by no preconceived photographic aesthetic . Her attitude bears a significant similarity to the sensitive plate of the

camera itself . For Dorothea Lange , making a shot is an exciting undertaking of unknown outcome that begins with no planned itinerary . She believes that setting out with a deliberate idea of what she wants to photograph actually reduces her chance for success . Her method is to remove from her mind before she starts , all ideas that she might hold concerning the setting - her mind is like an unexposed film . Both Henri Cartier-Bresson and Dorothea Lange recognized a photograph 's inherent ability to influence public opinion Their photographic visions produced a series of detailed images of public life . By capturing the demeanour of people as they went about their daily life , photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Dorothea Lange personified a culture and cultural disintegration generated by the historical events

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In 1930 Henri Cartier-Bresson served in military at Le Bourget . At this time he continued painting in spare time and began to photograph with Gretchen and Peter Powell (Lury189 . Cartier-Bresson met artists and through Caresse and Henry Crosby and became inspired by a 1930 photograph by Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkacsi titled Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika . Cartier-Bresson said

The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi . When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn 't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera . I said damn it , I took my camera and went out into the street (Kimmelman 2007

After this inspiration Cartier-Bresson stopped painting and took up photography seriously . Cartier-Bresson 's photographic technique is elementary and straightforward . The photographer liked his photographs sharp , aigu . He cared not so much about the quality of the optical image as about the accuracy of plastic organization and the depthof content Some of the drama in his still photographs may have come from his experience with films (Coles 216 . Children in Seville , Spain photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1933 , is seized in the middle norm of a run of action . Children playing in ruins of plaster walls whose holes seem torn out of the on which they are printed were prediction of an impending decade of disaster (Lury 19 . The image has provided a powerful report of fused peace and destruction , of joy and terror . 1938 photograph of a family moving from Idabel to Krebs Oklahoma by Lange presents the shock of displacement in a single expression : the distressing image...