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| Truman Capote |
I came across
'An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier Bresson' when I was looking at books in the library and I opened it to see the image of Jose Bergamin which reminded me of 'The Absinthe Drinker' by Picasso (not van Gogh like i put on the post it note below haha).
I then looked through the rest of the images and liked the use of the gaze of the subjects, which it actually discusses at the start of the book, and the atmosphere created by the black and white and his use of space. His portraits seem to focus on the subjects while they are submerged in their environments as if the photo is a hidden frame in that particular moment from when the picture was taken. The subjects also seem deep in thought, which adds a realistic tone to the images, making them seem like real people as the gaze adds another dimension showing us no just visual aspects but mental ones in the subjects' brains.
Cartier-Bresson's images have a calm haziness to them that has been created by how the subjects are positioned the frame. The moments looks almost candid and the use of dark shadows adds a mysterious and silent quality, with some objects seemingly coming out of no where. This all gives a personal and relaxed ambience; which I like. In addition to this, the images could be read to present tones of loneliness with the subjects looking lost. To me this represents how everyone at times can feel lost in the large world, especially with the backgrounds in the images showing the empty space around them causing them to look kind of secluded. A moment you wouldn't usually notice in real life.
24mm | f/7.1 | 1/100 | ISO-1600
An image I took in my room,
inspired by HCB.
Below the quote are my favourite images I found out of the book.
"Each of these photographs faithfully conveys the appearance of a person, of a body, of a face. But this face and body are shown in relation to the world and to themselves."
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| Arthur Miller |
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| Andre Pieyre |
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| Nicole Cartier-Bresson |
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| Melanie Cartier Bresson |
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| Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier |
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| Marilyn Monroe |
I came across 'An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier Bresson' when I was looking at books in the library and I opened it to see the image of Jose Bergamin which reminded me of 'The Absinthe Drinker' by Picasso (not van Gogh like i put on the post it note below haha).
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