{"id":907,"date":"2009-01-18T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/01\/18\/the-impassioned-eye\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:13:07","slug":"the-impassioned-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/01\/18\/the-impassioned-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A Cartier-Bresson documentary<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>To wile away a couple of hours being shown his pictures by the great man himself is one of the better things to do with your time.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/HCB_Impassioned1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The documentary is called <a href=http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0369523\/ tarfet=_blank>Henri Cartier-Bresson &#8211; The Impassioned Eye<\/a> and is an orgy of HCB&#8217;s pictures, with many interesting tidbits on what was happening at the moment he pressed the button.  I am struck again by how special his early (1930s) surrealist vision really was.  It&#8217;s something which faded over time making his newer pictures mundane by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s an error it&#8217;s the credit for his greatest picture &#8211; the man jumping over the puddle.  It&#8217;s not a 1950s effort &#8211; it dates from 1932 and was taken during a time when his vision would forever make <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2005\/06\/15\/about-cartier-bresson\/ target=_blank>Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/a> the most renowned photographer this world will ever know.  And when you listen to the stories behind the pictures of Chanel or Bonnard or the Curies, all will be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cartier-Bresson documentary. To wile away a couple of hours being shown his pictures by the great man himself is one of the better things to do with your time. The documentary is called Henri Cartier-Bresson &#8211; The Impassioned Eye and is an orgy of HCB&#8217;s pictures, with many interesting tidbits on what was happening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/01\/18\/the-impassioned-eye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27016,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/27016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}