Pursue and Selection

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By this Journal I don't intend to advertise any book (and it doesn't need :D). But this Magnum release is a good oportunity to explore the "World of Photography".
Contacts Sheets.
What are they, and what for? I went down that road before, here Decisive Moment vs Moment to DecideHenri Cartier-Bresson defines "The Decisive Moment" as follows:
"There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."
However, Henri Cartier-Bresson didn't only take one single photograph when he saw a decisive moment ready to happen (David Hurn refers to this as a "pregnant moment") but rather took several images of the same scene.
That truth is reinforced by the fact that "Gare" is one of only two photographs I know of that Cartier-Bresson cropped. There was a fence off to the left, and he didn't have time to move to the right before it was time to shoot.
You can see the original, un-cropped version in his book, Henri Cartier Bresson: Scrapbook.
If you look carefully at the masters work like Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, or
and they are records of a roll of film where photographers reviewed and edited their shoots from, a photographic image produced from film, sometimes from a film negative, and sometimes from a film positive.
And this release is important and spices up the curiousity because it shows how World-class photographers work, in two phases: the pursue of the image; and the selection process, as we do today, and the reasons that lead to their choices.

'Pulling a good picture out of a contact sheet,' Cartier-Bresson said, 'is like going down to the cellar and bringing back a good bottle to share."




Trent Parke




René Burri




Marc Riboud




Guy Le Querrec




Elliott Erwitt




Bruce Gilden




Josef Koudelka




Burt Glinn




Leonard Freed




Bruno Barbey




David Hurn - Beatles recording in Abbey Road




Jean Gaumy


Have a great Weekend :camera:

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