The Impassioned Eye
Henri Cartier-Brasson
“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”
“It’s everything. Life. Death. Pure bliss. Everything”
Henri believed that photography was just something that came natural. You did not have to know much to make art.
He chose to look at the extremes, which were sometimes very emotional.
The eye does the framing and the camera does the work.
Eye mind & heart have to be in line and balanced
Geometry and structure
Geometry is the foundation because everyone has feelings
Most of his pictures were taken without the subject knowing because they are never looking at the camera.
When you hit the target there is no need to crop the picture
He liked doing portraits.
“Basically you just have to make people forget about the camera.”
Portraits are the most difficult because you can’t get the same smile or look after it’s gone after that instant.
He loved Mexico because of the intensity of passion, there were whores on the streets at night making love on the street and during the day there were hammer sounds because of the carpenter making coffins.
“Take care of your eye.”
A photo is like the stab of a knife. Painting is meditation.
Friday night- we beat Wisconsin 4-2
