The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers



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Page: 109
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780893818753


1 – About Photographers A great photographer has, above everything else, a great eye. Camera gear is important but secondary. The mind's eye swarmed with visions of shelves groaning under the weight of Dean Koontz books, hotel rooms adorned with prints of moronic mountain ranges, and Waldorf schoolteachers across the land galvanizing the little brats . I have always found Barthes's Lover's Discourse and Incidents more inspiring than Camera Lucida, for photographers as well as writers on photography – and inspiring in a more oblique, tangential way. It is an advanced version of Page One in HK. I often roll my mind's eye when people speak of photography in the same breath as music, painting, or writing. The author conjured up a detailed physical landscape rich in atmosphere and colour, with characters whose very features I could 'see' in my mind's eye. The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers List Price: $19.95 ISBN13: 9780893818753Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! I have written about it at length in my books and my essays, and I continue to do so. The text on Wikipedia states: “Uelsmann is a master printer producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. Sometimes, the greatest travel books are the inadvertent kind, such as “The Mind's Eye,” Henri Cartier-Bresson's musings on his life as a photographer. In last month, i have visited Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. The book shop over there is really great! It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers. (Photo: Charles Dickens' writing desk). I do however feel that thousands of "professional" photographers find great joy in naively labeling themselves as artists. Art and writing blog (by Dr Marcus Bunyan) As one who started as a black and white photographer and who experimented with multiple exposures on one piece of silver gelatin paper in the darkroom, I can attest to how enormously difficult this process is. Here I want to offer some Read it as a loose list of items written as they crossed my mind and that I wanted to share. Composition is an important aspect of good photographs. Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography) - The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (HCB) - Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (not photography related). Great photographs are the result of acute seeing abilities. The mind's eye writing on photography and photographers.

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