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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 cal...