Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Behind the Gare St. Lazare
France
1933

Henri Cartier-Bresson
France
The Var Department
1932

Cartier-Bresson is possibly the first photographer whos work I fell in love with. Joel Meyerowitz put it brilliantly in The Genius of Photography, episode three, by saying "Bressons pictures where about being in the right place at the right time, He could step into a space and see the theatrical possibilities." Bresson would see the composition and then stop and think, what could happen here? I think this is a brilliant way of working which prepares the photographer for those desisive moments which can happen in a fraction of a second.