Marzagão a preto-e-branco: 2010-08

Missão

A Fotografia a preto-e-branco é a manifestação mais nobre da 8ª Arte. Uma imagem vale por si, pelo que contém e pelo que comunica. Todos os elementos acessórios são expurgados (começando pela cor) a ponto de não se sentir a sua falta.

Este singelo blogue pretende celebrar a Fotografia a preto-e-branco, relevando o papel dos Fotógrafos que, em nossa opinião, mais contribuiram para esta Arte.
Em complemento, os Autores do blogue irão trazer aqui algumas das suas próprias criações a preto-e-branco. Consoante a época em que foram produzidas (de 1960 até à actualidade) utilizaram-se múltiplos procedimentos na elaboração destas imagens.

Os detalhes técnicos de cada fotografia são deliberadamente escassos. Como se pretende, as imagens valem por si e as particularidades do processamento são quase sempre irrelevantes.

As imagens dos Grandes Mestres frequentemente retratam lugares, pessoas ou acontecimentos do conhecimento público. Do mesmo modo, considerou-se pouco relevante a sua legendagem quando o que se pretende é despertar a atenção do visitante para o portfolio dos Mestres, suscitando a vontade de melhor os conhecer.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35mm format and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed.
As a young boy, Cartier-Bresson owned a Box Brownie, using it for taking holiday snapshots; he later experimented with a 3×4 inch view camera.
Cartier-Bresson achieved international recognition for his coverage of Gandhi's funeral in India in 1948 and the last stage of the Chinese Civil War.

In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book Images à la Sauvette, whose English edition was titled The Decisive Moment. It included a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. The book's cover was drawn by Henri Matisse. For his preface, Cartier-Bresson took his keynote text from the 17th century Cardinal de Retz: "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment". Cartier-Bresson applied this to his photographic style. He said: "Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact. Photography is not like painting, there is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever." (Wikipedia)