Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Born: August 22, 1908
Died: August 3, 2004

Henri is 1 of five siblings how he grow up with in bourgeois and neighbourhood in Paris. He attended École Fenelon, a catholic school, he later in 1928 to 1929, he studied at the University of Cambridge in art, literature and English.
Henri was inspired by Martin Munkacsi and Hungarian Photojournalist in 1930, Martin showed Henri "The three boys of lake Tanganyika" He quoted;
"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" 

The Var department, Hyères, France, 1932

Analysis
In this photograph you see a blurred man on a bicycle riding around a corner on a cobbled and tarmacked street. in the foreground for this picture you have a set of stairs that lead down to wear the man is cycling, these stairs have metal railings that follow the stairs most if the way down. 

Meaning
The man on the bicycle is captured really well but because he is going so fast he is still blurred and by the looks of it he is also leaning into the corner maybe to keep his speed up as he goes around the bend. The stair case, why maybe because it was were the photographer was standing at the moment the photograph was taken suggesting that he didn't have any time to set up to take the picture when this event happened. The tarmacked street with the cobbled sides means that this was an old street that has been renovated from time to time but has not been completely tarmacked over yet or it is a form of drainage for the street.

Arizona, USA, 1947

Analysis

In this photograph you see a steam train travelling across the railway pulling wagons and flat trucks. in the foreground there is the bottom half of a old car and the top half of the car is in the centre of the picture between the train and the lower half. Looks like it was taken in a desert area with mountains in the background.

Meaning
The broken car is there probably because it originally had crashed and over time people had come and removed the top part of the car and proceed to carry it towards the railway. The train is there because it is trying to make a delivery of frat to some place in the urban land that this photo has been taken in. The power/communication lines that run along side the train are there because that was how they use to communicate with the city, also they did this because roads never existed at the time they were put up.

Province of Munster, Kerry County, Near Bantree, Ireland, 1962

Analysis
You see a long wooden boat that is broken at one end, surrounded by plants and rocks. There is small cliffs on ever side of the boat that is sitting in the water. This small cover of water leads out to a lake or a river that is lined with trees.




Meaning
The broken long boat that is sitting in the water was probably abandoned by its owners when the broke and has been left to become part of nature this provided by the moss or algae that is growing on the water is covering the broken part of the boat. The small cliffs on ever side of the boat is like this because it could of been dug away by people to create a docking area for boats and maybe a launcher area as well, but clearly has not been used for years due to the amount of weeds that grown in this area.  

URL links 
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