11/5 Idea: Decisive Moment

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Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered the father of modern photojournalism and a master of candid photography. In 1952 he published a book, The Decisive Moment. In it he stated "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment". In 1957 he was quoted in the Washington post saying "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. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

Right now in my work, This moment is key. In reality I am shooting moment that will happen again and again, replayed and edited for repeated views. But there is something about these moments that are internally ingrained within each other, new episode or not, the same moments happend again and again. varied only slightly.