American Suburb X presents a Henri Cartier-Bresson Interview from 1958.
“To me, photography is a simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of a significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of form which gives that event its proper expression. I believe that, for reactive living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds: the one inside us, and the one outside us. As the result of a constant reciprocal process, both these worlds come to form a single one. And it is this world that we must communicate. ”
Check it out HERE.
Just having seen the largely UNIMPRESSIVE “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century” show at the Art Institute of Chicago (through no fault of his own, obviously) it good to read this.
Image © Henri Cartier-Bresson
