What's in the frame: an ode to a master

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

first a painter, then the original street photographer and father of photojournalism

August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004

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

What's in the frame

A moment is an eternal wheel

that you froze,

or the center of a wheel,

like a cigarette in a mouth,

and all around,
the world is

puffing, blowing, kissing,

touching you

with its beautiful lips.

- ruth m.

There is a photography exhibit at the MoMA of Henri Cartier-Bresson's photos shot in the U.S., which I plan to see next month. Browse his portfolio. Read the history of the Magnum Photo Agency, which he helped found. You can see MoMA's interactives about the exhibit.

Martine's Legs. 1967.

INDIA. Gujarat. Ahmedabad. 1966.
Women spreading out their saris before the sun.

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