 | On Photography | Aug 22, 2005 |
"THEN GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT; AND THERE WAS LIGHT. AND GOD SAW THAT THE LIGHT WAS GOOD." Genesis 1:3-4 NRSV "I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE DEALING WITH LIGHT AND NOT GET SOME PERCEPTION OF THE MYSTERIOUS." --- from "Richard Avedon: Darkness & Light." "THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE ITS DECISIVE MOMENT." --- Cardinal de Retz, 17th century. This quotation has become inseparably associated with Henri Cartier-Bresson's name and photographic style. "TO ME, PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE SIMULTANEOUS RECOGNITION, IN A FRACTION OF A SECOND, OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AN EVENT AS WELL AS OF A PRECISE ORGANIZATION OF FORMS WHICH GIVE THAT EVENT ITS PROPER EXPRESSION." ---Henri Cartier-Bresson  | | | |
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