Henri Cartier Bresson

• Photojournalism - Explain what it is

-I think Photojournalism is recording an event or an action using photography to describe the event. it sort of gives meaning to the idea that "pictures speak louder than words".

 
Henri Cartier Bresson -

• Why is he famous?
• Why is his work significant in Photojournalism?
• Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
• What Camera/Technique did he use 

Henri Cartier Bresson is famous because his pictures were about being in the right place at the right time. He would sit and wait somewhere for something to happen. an example of this is the picture
above which shows a picture of a person riding a bike and is shot from the top of a staircase.

His work is significant to Photojournalism because he had caught pictures that other people would have never thought of trying to catch.

The idea of sitting and waiting for the opportune moment was a completely new technique at the time and the fact that Bresson had one of the new Leica Cameras meant that he could easily capture these moments. The Leica camera was a step forward in photography technology as it was one of the first instant capture cameras that was also smaller than some of the other cameras as well as also being pretty much silent.