Ted Papageorge delightfully recounts Henri Cartier-Bresson's life in this article. He grew up in a wealthy household in 1908. In his artist career, he actually started out as a painter, and went to school to study it. And then in 1931 he spent time on the Ivory coast and started concentrating in photography. A little later in the 30s he started to work on films and documentaries to help out other artists. He was also taken prisoner by Germans and finally escaped on his third attempt three years later in 1943. He then became one of the founders of Magnum Photo with Robert Capa, David Seymour, Williams Vandivert, and George Rodger in 1947.
Ted calls Bresson arguably "the greatest photographer who's ever lived" and was someone who looked up to the writer Rimbaud. Rimbaud was known as capturing the young genius mind and Bresson was attracted to that. Ted writes about his friendship with American couple Peter and Gretchen Powel, who introduced him to the work of Atget and Kertesz. Later Bresson had an affair with Gretchen. He also writes about Bresson's bad temper and how he wasn't really friends with that many other photographers. He probably thought highly of himself, was a bit conceited.
Cartier-Bresson completed a book called The Decisive Moment made in 1952. Ted talks about the sexual content in the book and how it impacted the society when it was seen. There were even some photos edited out of the book: "the brothel-keeper and the 'gay'".
Ted Papageorge talks very highly of Henri Cartier-Bresson, but also mentions the awkward unfriendliness towards people in general but mostly other photographers. His work is a great success and will always be known, and it will always have power.
Ted calls Bresson arguably "the greatest photographer who's ever lived" and was someone who looked up to the writer Rimbaud. Rimbaud was known as capturing the young genius mind and Bresson was attracted to that. Ted writes about his friendship with American couple Peter and Gretchen Powel, who introduced him to the work of Atget and Kertesz. Later Bresson had an affair with Gretchen. He also writes about Bresson's bad temper and how he wasn't really friends with that many other photographers. He probably thought highly of himself, was a bit conceited.
Cartier-Bresson completed a book called The Decisive Moment made in 1952. Ted talks about the sexual content in the book and how it impacted the society when it was seen. There were even some photos edited out of the book: "the brothel-keeper and the 'gay'".
Ted Papageorge talks very highly of Henri Cartier-Bresson, but also mentions the awkward unfriendliness towards people in general but mostly other photographers. His work is a great success and will always be known, and it will always have power.
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