Whenever we look through a family album of old photographs, most of us ask "Who is this?" not "Who was this?" Photographs are always present tense, and so are all the elements of life the enrich us. This blog considers music, film, books and other communications that call out to me always in the present tense.
Cartier-Bresson? He's everywhere!
Sometimes, cleaning out the hard drive is an adventure, especially when you have more than 25,000 images stored there. I recently stumbled on a pair of shots from New York that resonate as i work on my master's project that has an awful lot to do with Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The top photo was taken using his "decisive moment" approach from his early days. Find a pleasing setting and wait for someone to populate it. In this shot, it's the new PATH station downtown.
The lower photo was taken on the High Line in Chelsea. The man is right out of Cartier-Bresson central casting, and the woman looks French to me ... if only she was reading a book and not a phone ...