Madrid, 1933

Wat je ziet is een foto van Henri Cartier-Bresson, één van de grondleggers van de nieuwsfotografie. Hier meer geslaagde kiekjes van deze Fransoos.

In zijn Wikipedia-artikel wordt verteld hoe Cartier-Bresson aan fotografie verslingerd raakte:

He became inspired by a 1930 photograph by Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkacsi showing three naked young African boys, caught in near-silhouette, running into the surf of Lake Tanganyika. Titled Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika, this captured the freedom, grace and spontaneity of their movement and their joy at being alive. Cartier-Bresson said:

"The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street."

That photograph inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant."

En inderdaad, de betreffende foto van Munkacsi heeft zeker iets:



Is fotografie de minst gekunstelde en meest toegankelijke kunstvorm? Het lijkt er wel op.