ART WITHOUT ART - Henri Cartier-Bresson
For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was just one of many ways of exercising his intelligence of the world, of creating an "imaginary from nature". This "tool" has always remained linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, places photography within an original symbolic framework that crowns a profound reflection, invalidating the distinctions proper to Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual exercise and artistic activity. The archer-photographer thus becomes master of the moment, 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 paintings, drawings and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson to the public, this book offers a fresh look at both his work and the art of the photojournalists he claimed to be.
Published by Flammarion, 1995
25 × 34cm
328 pages
ISBN: 978-2080126375
For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was just one of many ways of exercising his intelligence of the world, of creating an "imaginary from nature". This "tool" has always remained linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, places photography within an original symbolic framework that crowns a profound reflection, invalidating the distinctions proper to Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual exercise and artistic activity. The archer-photographer thus becomes master of the moment, 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 paintings, drawings and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson to the public, this book offers a fresh look at both his work and the art of the photojournalists he claimed to be.
Published by Flammarion, 1995
25 × 34cm
328 pages
ISBN: 978-2080126375
For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was just one of many ways of exercising his intelligence of the world, of creating an "imaginary from nature". This "tool" has always remained linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, places photography within an original symbolic framework that crowns a profound reflection, invalidating the distinctions proper to Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual exercise and artistic activity. The archer-photographer thus becomes master of the moment, 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 paintings, drawings and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson to the public, this book offers a fresh look at both his work and the art of the photojournalists he claimed to be.
Published by Flammarion, 1995
25 × 34cm
328 pages
ISBN: 978-2080126375