Because hunters aren’t cooks: Inspiration from a French master photographer

Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

A man after my own heart… When it comes to photography, I also prefer to hunt the image rather than perfect it during post-processing or printing. For the last year I worked as a wedding photographer, I outsourced all of my Lightroom corrections and it was wonderfully liberating.

Because no quote is complete without imagery, here are a few works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and a link to an excellent online exhibit.

My personal favorite: Srinagar, 1948. I’ve seen this at a gallery in Santa Monica and it’s breathtaking.

 

Salamanca, Spain 1963

Eure-et-Loir, 1968

Romania, 1975

Cheers,
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