My wife and I have recently moved house and in the process of packing, for the second time in three years, I uncovered some of my old photography books. Never being one to pass an opportunity to procrastinate I opened a book by one of the greatest photographers ever, Henri Cartier-Bresson. The 1930s French photographer coined the phrase “the decisive moment”. That split second when the content and the composition meet to create a timeless photograph.

Cartier-Bresson described this process as “the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms.” It is something that takes years of training and something that I have been striving for in my photography, even in ‘posed’ portraits. It’s nice to have it summed up so neatly.

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This entry was posted Sunday, July 17th, 2005 at 10:13 am and is filed under Info, Photography.