Theory:
Personally, the artist that I could relate to the most was Henri Cartier-Bresson. He thinks about photography as a way to capture what is going on in real life, and its natural beauty and story. This aligns with what I’d like to do for my final project.
“According to Cartier-Bresson, there is an almost magical split-second in which events in the world – interactions between people, movement, light and form – combine in perfect visual harmony. Once it passes, it is gone forever. To capture such moments as a photographer you must be inconspicuous, nimble and attentive; working on instinct; responding to reality and never trying to manipulate it.” – The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1952), digested by Rachel Segal Hamilton
Quotes:
- “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank - “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
— Anonymous - “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt - “The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
— Scott Lorenzo - “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus
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