Henri Cartier Bresson
Channel: the aleatoric learning channel
Date: 2021-10-06

Cartier-Bresson regarded Lhote as his teacher of "Photography without a camera." Although Cartier-Bresson became frustrated with Lhote's "Rule-laden" approach to art, the rigorous theoretical training later helped him identify and resolve problems of artistic form and composition in photography. Cartier-Bresson met American expatriate Harry Crosby at Le Bourget, who persuaded the commandant to release Cartier-Bresson into his custody for a few days. 163  Crosby later said Cartier-Bresson "Looked like a fledgling, shy and frail, and mild as whey." Embracing the open sexuality offered by Crosby and his wife Caresse, Cartier-Bresson fell into an intense sexual relationship with her that lasted until 1931. In 1934, Cartier-Bresson met a young Polish intellectual, a photographer named David Szymin who was called "Chim" because his name was difficult to pronounce. Through Chim, Cartier-Bresson met a Hungarian photographer named Endré Friedmann, who later changed his name to Robert Capa. The show debuted in 1947 together with the publication of his first book, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Cartier-Bresson did not like to be photographed and treasured his privacy. In a Charlie Rose interview in 2000, Cartier-Bresson noted that it wasn't necessarily that he hated to be photographed, but it was that he was embarrassed by the notion of being photographed for being famous. No longer bound by a 4×5 press camera or a medium format twin-lens reflex camera, miniature-format cameras gave Cartier-Bresson what he called "The velvet hand...the hawk's eye."He never photographed with flash, a practice he saw as "Impolite...like coming to a concert with a pistol in your hand."He believed in composing his photographs in the viewfinder, not in the darkroom. 1969: Québec vu par Cartier-Bresson / Le Québec as seen by Cartier-Bresson.