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For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was one of many ways to explore his understanding of the world and to create an “imaginary world inspired by nature.” This “tool” always remained closely linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, places photography within a unique symbolic framework that culminates in a profound reflection, thereby undermining the distinctions inherent in Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual practice, and artistic activity. The photographer-archer thus becomes the master of the moment by practicing “art without art.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson brought his ethics to reportage, making the photographer the Lord of Occasion, the Master of Coincidence. Then, the knots he so vividly wove over time with the photographic tool will be patiently re-knotted with drawing.
By presenting the public with Henri Cartier-Bresson’s paintings, drawings, and photographs, this book offers a fresh perspective on both his work and the art of photojournalism, a field to which he claimed to belong.
Published by Flammarion, 1995
25 × 34cm
328 pages
ISBN: 978-2080126375
For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was one of many ways to explore his understanding of the world and to create an “imaginary world inspired by nature.” This “tool” always remained closely linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, places photography within a unique symbolic framework that culminates in a profound reflection, thereby undermining the distinctions inherent in Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual practice, and artistic activity. The photographer-archer thus becomes the master of the moment by practicing “art without art.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson brought his ethics to reportage, making the photographer the Lord of Occasion, the Master of Coincidence. Then, the knots he so vividly wove over time with the photographic tool will be patiently re-knotted with drawing.
By presenting the public with Henri Cartier-Bresson’s paintings, drawings, and photographs, this book offers a fresh perspective on both his work and the art of photojournalism, a field to which he claimed to belong.
Published by Flammarion, 1995
25 × 34cm
328 pages
ISBN: 978-2080126375