Bresson

      Henri Cartier-Bresson (22 de agosto de 1908 — 2 de agosto de 2004) foi um dos mais importantes fotógrafos do século XX, considerado o pai do fotojornalismo.

GIMME TWO

 
"Be careful, ok?", said the father to his little son, Frederico. It
was the first time that he was walking in the streets by himself.
His father asked him to buy a bottle of wine at the open market. He
had 10 bucks. Getting there, he realized that the wine was on sale: 2
bottles for 11 dollars. Perfect!
He bargained with the seller and got 2 bottles. One for his
grandfather, another for his dad.
Frederico, 5 years old, a sweet little boy walking down the streets
feeling like a hero! He had happiness in his eyes.

by:Alice Sabino 

Cartier Bresson

Cartier Bresson was born on August 22, 1908, in France. When he was a kid he won a camera with which he photographed a lot. But only after he was truly discovered in photography through the Hungarian Martin Munkacsi’s photograph, which shows three African descendente males running toward the sea. Years later he founded, together with some friends, the photo agency Magnum. During this period his work became more sophisticated. He has had his photos published in several major magazines.

We can see many similarities between the works of Cartier Bresson, with the genre Flash Fiction. Among them, the fact that the picture has a record of an event, as well as flash fiction. In the photo just a small image to portray a fact, a history, a moment, just as happens in the flash fiction genre, it takes only a few words to portray events. His images do not stop, he captured the exact moment that best expressed the situation, this situation frozen in the image. So it is flash fiction, the narrated are marked, captured through writing.

                                                           Jayane do Nascimento Souza.

The boy with the bottles

He entered slowly, this morning, a boy in an area where there were four women, but with the quiet air of one who wanted something, begging in fear flies in the face of the brunette. One woman moved closer to try to talk, but the lad answered only with gestures. When she told him she was uncomfortable because no one called, the police retreated, showing more fear, rushing them each one of these to  give something material, as shyness seemed to know what it was or he a child half opened himself to a bottle of vodka.

                                                                     

by  José Camilo dos Santos Júnior.

The Artists Words

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. It is by economy of means that one arrives at the simplicity of expression.

To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

To take a photograph means to recognize-simultaneously and within a fraction of a second- both the fact itself and the organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning.

                                                                                 Lidiane Cristina de Souza.

The boy with the bottles

On a sunny day a little boy went to market, but, he didn’t know what to buy. He thinks: “what I want?” I can buy candies, ice cream or biscuits. He thought, “And my brothers and sisters?” He says to the merchant: “Give me two bottles of milk”. The merchant says: “We haven’t any, but, you want wine?” Yes, he said. On the way to his house, the people look at him and say, “Has Easter come?”
By: Marcossuel Soares Batista da Silva.

                                                  

Henri Cartier Bresson and the “Decisive moment”

            Always seeking to capture life and it’s small daily dramas, so photos. Bresson arranged produced and assembled, so recording life in their small immediate and ephemeral moments. He built the concept of “decisive moment” that means the key moment in any given situation. As Bresson himself put it, “photography is an instantaneous operation which expresses the world in visual terms, both sensory and intellectual, is also a constant demand and a question mark.”

                                                             Marcossuel Soares Batista da Silva.

Bresson on what to cut

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fact itself and rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis.  (Henri Cartier Bresson)

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? While we’re working, we must be conscious of what we’re doing. Sometimes we have the feeling that we’ve taken a great photo, and yet we continue to unfold. We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole. -Cartier Bresson- on photojournalism, American September/October 1997, page: 76.

                                                                                      Civonício Vaniele

Bresson

Bresson went out into the world to photograph and freeze the decisive moment, which he defines as the right time to pull the trigger and try to capture it.” For me, photography is a simultaneous recognition, in a split second, the significance of the event, as well as the precise organization of forms, which gives the event its exact expression,” he says. In the same way, is what we do with the flash fiction, we catch the right moment, decisive. The flash fiction is also the essence of the event, what happens in a split second, but what is important.

                                                                    Maria Elisabeth Garcia de Lima. 

Cartier Bresson the photographer

"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.” 

(Henri Cartier-Bresson).

Cartier Bresson produced, as well as other photographers, a structure from image sequences, that is, bringing together several instances of the same  scene, and this  is linked to certain “alternative tradition” in the works of great photographers. All of them, at sometime in their life, have released their sequences. There was also the case of Irving Penn, who, on the cover of his book about the career in photography, published a contact sheet of a session of fashion.

By recovering this tradition, which is not based on more traditional formula editing photo books, according to which images should always be displayed in whole or in facing pages, this innovation brings logic exposure. That’s what we do, register things in a sequence, not with photography, but with the activities in the classroom.                                    Randália Amaro Pereira