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A Critical Evaluation of a Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Essay - 1000 words. Title: A Critical Evaluation of a Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson "Born in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson is regarded as one of the greatest photographers of his time". "Photography is an instantaneous operation, both sensory and intellectual - an expression of the world in visual terms and also a perpetual quest and interrogation. It is at one and the same time the recognition of a fact in a fraction of a second and the vigorous arrangement of the forms visually perceived which give to that fact expression and significance." - Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the founders of the legendary Magnum photographic agency, along with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger, and the pictures in the national library show his astonishing ability to be in the right place at the right time The Leica he bought in 1932 to help his art studies is stored in a strongbox. He...
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