The Decisive Moment
決定的瞬間 / 1932– / Style / Photography Movements
Cartier-Bresson's formula: the instant when form and event coincide, caught as geometry. The Leica's mobility and the no-cropping ethic built the century's ideal of reportage.
Geometry meeting event / The no-cropping ethic / Small-camera mobility / The full black-bordered frame
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- The Decisive Moment, 1952 / Magnum Photos / the puddle behind Gare Saint-Lazare