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All the faces of Cartier-Bresson

2021-06-15T18:44:22.372Z


DECRYPTION - The BnF offers an insight into “The Great Game” of “The Eye of the Century”. Five guests confront their views on the photographer's chosen work.


Henri Cartier-Bresson, it is this particular look at the world that succeeds, naturally, almost by chance, in combining opposites.

The raw truth of the moment and the elegant lightness of the image.

Almost tactile reality of the subject and instinctive distance from the great photographer, in both meanings of the term.

Gravity of contexts and saving humor, a sort of philosophical motto of a tenacious, literate and methodical photoreporter.

Stopped time of the

"decisive moment"

and incessant journeys, from revolutionary China to the Spain of the civil war.

Incessant movement of the characters and perfect composition of the images, in proportions and contrasts, without ever being cropped.

Particularity of places and characters, and universal scope of the message.

A myth of photography that has accompanied the century and whose work has become this mountain from which we still extract nuggets.

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Source: lefigaro

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