{"id":540,"date":"2015-02-16T06:55:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2015-02-16T06:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:55:40","slug":"the-decisive-moment-by-henri-cartier-bresson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/the-decisive-moment-by-henri-cartier-bresson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decisive Moment By Henri Cartier-Bresson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve spent even a small amount of time researching Street Photography you&#8217;ll have come across the name Henri Cartier-Bresson at least a few times.\u00a0 Cartier-Bresson is known as the father of photojournalism and Street Photographers study his work as if he were Picasso or Monet.\u00a0 Personally, I love his work&#8230;\u00a0 it&#8217;s reminiscent of a time when Street Photography was more about capturing a moment and telling a story, or letting the viewer imagine their own story, rather than shoving a camera into an unsuspecting strangers face like a spaz.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are no new ideas in the world, only new arrangement of things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve probably already guessed this website was named after the famous concept of the Decisive Moment, possibly Cartier-Bresson&#8217;s most recognizable concept (many have heard and understand the concept but may not know who developed it&#8230; Pun intended).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyhMqDfmG9o\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video above is something I would recommend watching before the next time you venture out into the streets with your camera, it&#8217;s a rare glimpse into the thought process of one of the greats.\u00a0 Henri walks you through a number of his famous images all the while giving advice on how to see the world.\u00a0 Watching this video may be the best 18+ minutes you spend all day.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;re watching this video I think it&#8217;s important to realize that the Decisive Moment isn&#8217;t just one single moment.\u00a0 Many of Cartier-Bresson&#8217;s most famous images were selected out of a series of photos he took.\u00a0 You can actually see the contact sheets he marked in the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/050054431X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=050054431X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=photolistcom-20&amp;linkId=452NAUGQQ5GMWJCR\">Magnum Contact Sheets<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=photolistcom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=050054431X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>*.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Contact sheets were pages where the undeveloped frames of film would be located, usually of all the frames taken on a specific roll of film. Photographers would then mark up the frames and choose which ones they&#8217;d like to use, the marking would sometimes give interesting insight into each photographers thought process.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-columns third clearfix\">\n<div class=\"col\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=photolistcom-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=050054431X&amp;asins=050054431X&amp;linkId=AIPRDG5EMLFPXNMU&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Who has been influential to your photography style?\u00a0 Have you taken the time to study the greats?\u00a0 It&#8217;s important to study the work of others to avoid trying to &#8220;reinvent the wheel&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve spent even a small amount of time researching Street Photography you&#8217;ll have come across the name Henri Cartier-Bresson at least a few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[183,187,184,34,186,13,185],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/the-decisive-moment-by-henri-car.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xbS3-8I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}