When did you know the word "capture"? Do you know how it came about?
In fact, as early as the last century, the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson founded the "theory of decisive moments" ("refers to the means of capture, in a very short fraction of a second, the decisive things are summarized and expressed with a strong visual composition").
Henri Cartier-Bresson is an iconic figure in documentary photography and the founder of Margran Pictures, who has produced weighty documentary and news reporting works around the world and is known as the father of modern photojournalism.
1 The origin of the word
According to current information, in 1952 Bresson selected 126 of his works taken between 1932 and 1950 to publish a French album, the original Chinese titled "Images à la Sauvette", and the subsequent English version called "The Decisive Moment", which later became known as "Decisive Moment".
As for the origin of the word, Bresson explained that it came from Cardinal Leidse's statement that "everything in the world has its decisive moment", and Bresson himself never made a clear and complete definition of the decisive moment.
But we can understand his creative conception in his only words, bresson mentions in his book "The Eye of Thought", "My interest has never been in photography itself", but in the possibility it presents – by forgetting myself – to record the subject's mood in a fraction of a second and the formal beauty of the picture, in other words, the beauty of the geometric structure evoked by the picture".
Bresson defined photography in the preface to Decisive Moments, saying: "Photography is a close arrangement of the visually perceived form of an event in the same instant to properly express and represent the meaning of the event."
Therefore, we can see that Bresson not only emphasizes the strict arrangement of the form of the picture, but more importantly, in order to properly express the meaning of the event, that is, the geometric structure of the picture is a formal beauty, and its existence is to serve the content of the photo.
The so-called decisive moment is the existence of just such a fleeting moment, at which the framed picture of the lens presents the beauty of the geometric structure; at the same time, the beauty of such a form is just the expression of the event itself.
This is not only a visual climax, but also an event climax, a perfect combination of the time, space and event itself in which the subject is located, and the organic unity of the photographer's eyes, intellect and emotion.
Therefore, seeing each of his works will arouse people's feelings; what is happening in this picture, what kind of emotions the characters in the picture are; each picture is telling a story, and at the moment of storytelling, it happens that certain elements constitute a certain structure and form.
Among most of Bresson's works, what I prefer is this one, the boy who completes the procurement "task" with inner ease and pleasure. Perhaps because of the times, under Bresson's lens, you will see a lot of reflections of the times and reality, thinking about society and human nature.
At the coronation of King George VI in 1936, the crowd watching the honor guard stood in stark contrast to the men who were sleeping exhausted in the newspaper pile;
Two men peeking through the gaps in the curtain, one of them looking around in panic for a moment that was quite funny;
Separated by a door, it is the embodiment of two worlds, the boss in the house is rich, and outside the house is a long worker who eats miscellaneous grains;
His "capture" is to use the moment to express the emotions and emotions of the events of that moment; what do you think? If you also like photography, you may wish to look at the thoughts and experiences of some of your predecessors and think more.
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