Dolph Channeling Henri Cartier-Bresson
Canon SD300
Dolph was trying my Leica M3, and seeing him with the camera reminded me of a picture that I saw of the famous photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson (one of my favorite photographers).
--Warren
The real Henri Cartier Bresson:
Labels: Black and White, Canon SD300, FPCF Photographers, Street
posted by Warren T. at 7:34 AM
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5 Comments:
When I was taking the picture of Dolph, I had the picture of HCB in my mind. I told Dolph to move the camera away from his face a little because I recalled that in the HCB picture that I remembered, I could see HCB's face more than I could see Dolph's face.
At the time, I couldn't figure out why it was different with Dolph. Now that I compare the two pictures, I realized that Dolph is left-handed and left eye dominant, so he was looking through the M3's viewfinder with his left eye (thus hiding his face with the camera) whereas HCB is the opposite.
--Warren
Wow, great tribute to HCB - I lift my beret to you, Warren! :-)
good memory! I feel like I have tonight visited the Friendly Photo Forum Education Center :)))
i binged Henri Cartier-Bresson to scroll through some photos.. Out of curiosity, do you think this photo of yours was influenced by HCB (june 20, 2008):
"Hang Ah Alley"
http://fpcf.blogspot.com/2008/06/hang-ah-alley.html
I remembered it right away when I saw some of the HCB images.
The content of the post -the way you were wondering if there was meaning in the ordinary, some meaning you perhaps couldn't put to words- it seems so similar to the Peter Galassi quote regarding one of HCB's earlier influences (via the wikipedia link):
"The Surrealists recognized in plain photographic fact an essential quality that had been excluded from prior theories of photographic realism. They saw that ordinary photographs, especially when uprooted from their practical functions, contain a wealth of unintended, unpredictable meanings."
So yeah, I had to dig up the link for that photo and ask :)
hi Lea,
Thanks for your comment. I'm pleased that you remembered that picture (Hang Ah Alley). HCB may have influenced that picture in an indirect way, but I wasn't thinking of HCB when I took the picture :). I'm impressed that you took the time to find it!
The similarity of the content to Peter Gallassi's comments about HCB is purely coincidental too! Isn't it interesting though? :)
As a reminder to everyone else, the search feature is broken on the main blog page, but search works very well in the "edit posts" mode of blogger. If you ever need to find an old post or picture or subject, use the search feature there.
Food for thought for future discussion (because I don't have the time right now to write more about it): How do you "see" a potential picture? What is your thought process? Dolph and I had a discussion about this last Saturday.
--Warren
nice hat Dolph. didn't know you were so fashionable. :)
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