{"id":1464,"date":"2005-02-03T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T19:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2012-11-12T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:10:04","slug":"decisive-moment-henri-cartier-bresson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2005\/decisive-moment-henri-cartier-bresson","title":{"rendered":"The Decisive Moment &#8211; Henri Cartier-Bresson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1465\" title=\"cartier-bresson-man-jumping\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cartier-bresson-man-jumping-171x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cartier-bresson-man-jumping-171x250.jpg 171w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cartier-bresson-man-jumping-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cartier-bresson-man-jumping.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 85vw, 171px\" \/>Photography was my first creative outlet. I started in my father&#8217;s darkroom around age 15. I grew up admiring the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/research\/archives\/highlights\/06_1955.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steichen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zpub.com\/sf\/history\/adams.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adams<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photo-seminars.com\/Fame\/MargaretWhite.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bourke-White<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photo-seminars.com\/Fame\/EdWeston.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Weston<\/a>, and most of all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photo-seminars.com\/Fame\/bresson.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cartier-Bresson<\/a>. His &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digitaljournalist.org\/issue0412\/friend.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Decisive Moment<\/a>&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dlUWznm1ufU\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>) was an early inspiration for me. In the introduction he wrote&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>The decisive moment &#8230; is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography was my first creative outlet. I started in my father&#8217;s darkroom around age 15. I grew up admiring the work of Steichen, Adams, Bourke-White, Weston, and most of all Cartier-Bresson. His &#8220;The Decisive Moment&#8221; (2) was an early inspiration for me. In the introduction he wrote&#8230; The decisive moment &#8230; is the simultaneous recognition, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2005\/decisive-moment-henri-cartier-bresson\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Decisive Moment &#8211; Henri Cartier-Bresson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-photography","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}