Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henry Cartier-Bresson. 2000 year. 92 years of a living classic. He does not give an interview and no longer takes pictures. The appearance of reckless humanity created by him is faultless and incredible. He imprinted him with love, not sparing tape, sharply feeling that "destiny of photographer is continuously vanishing things. And when they leave, no ingenuity, nothing in the world will compel them to return". The famous album, consisting of 126 pictures, taken off for 20 years in different countries, master named "Stored appearances" (Cartier-Bresson, 1952).

Feeling the hot breathing of life on surveys in Spain in 1933, Cartier-Bresson decides on your own one time and for life: no rising! He does not dream up, does not invent artificial reality, remaining faithful a documentarily-genre picture.

All began from a miniature camera "watering-can", becoming popular in 30th, and the impressions from the pictures of Ezhena Atzhe, began the French realist ages. On flashbacks of Cartier-Bresson, it became his first impulse to creation.

In 1939 he enters into the French army, becomes a corporal in army cinema and photo department, and when Nazi took France, made prisoner. Three times tries to hurry. It succeeds him from the third attempt. Going to Paris after thirty six months of fascist captivity, he becomes the participant of Resistance. From master the special courage was in those years required, to think not only about a fight against an enemy but also professionally to fix the step of History on tape. Cartier-Bresson organizes the French newspaper photographers for surveys during occupation and retreat of fascists.

When the second world war made off in Europe, he worked as an operator in Management of military information of the United States and makes a documentary movie about returning of prisoners of war to France. In 1946 travelled the United States, sharp-sighted looking after life of people through the view-finder of the chamber; In Museum of modern art in New York the first large exhibition of his works took a place in a that year. Returning on a motherland, Cartier-Bresson with two by the friends-photographers – Robert Kapa and Chemo – founded the independent agency of "Magnum of Photo".

Even for professionals causes a surprise, as possible to catch such moments, have time to throw up a camera, to point on a sharpness. Explanation is simple: master become with the chamber. A lens is continuation of eye, and aiming on a sharpness is instinct, above-ground in finger-tips. Reporter from God. "Most difficult for me is a portrait, – he talked. – it is Necessary to try to focus a lens between the skin of who portraits and his shirt".

Taking off in the totalitarian states, be that Soviet Union or China, many photographers were added that I would name a "social constructivism". Easily to carry with a rhythm and lines in an image, when people line up in cohorts and march in step with identical transparencies.

There is more sympathy in the photo impression of Cartier-Bresson, what ironies: women in identical shapeless overcoats and in opposite mohair caps which all carried then… They crowd at a counter, examining a bag. A picture causes pity and sad smile.

Cartier-Bresson always interesting people. On the pictures of master there is not senseless crowd with colours, as in any soviet newspaper of those years. On the pictures of Cartier-Bresson is a group portrait of different people, but each of which is unique personality. And all not alike on each other: Master reminded us of what we sometimes forget about.

Masters died on Augusts, 3, 2004 in France in 96 years old.