Tag: the decisive moment

  • Street Photography Key: Anticipation

    Street Photography Key: Anticipation

    As handed down by street photography forefather Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment is the precise time and place street shooters hope to uncover and capture. The street is a public stage, with passersby as the actors stepping into its sun-lit spotlight. However, for most who walk through it, both as participants and unconscious witnesses, the…

  • The Decisive Moment: An Henri Cartier-Bresson Documentary

    The Decisive Moment: An Henri Cartier-Bresson Documentary

    In 1952, the Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson — street photography pioneer and perhaps its most influential master — published his book Images à la sauvette. Loosely translated, it means “images on the run.” The book’s English edition title was alternatively chosen as The Decisive Moment, thereby giving street photography its most definitive and well-known catch phrase.…