THE PHILOSOPHY OF GEOMETRY BEHIND HENRI CARIER-BRESSON’S PHOTOGRAPHY
Even if you don’t fancy yourself a photographer, there is plenty to learn from master Henri Cartier-Bresson, who didn’t fancy himself a painter but learned plenty from that art form’s masters. Adam Marelli again draws all over a bunch of pictures to describe figure-ground relationship, geometry, and more in his thorough article on the famous mid-century photographer. Bressonian ideals within the context of Surrealism, shadow as object, sinister diagonal as part of optical illusion, and fragmented figures as patterns - all of these are concepts that could serve your photography quite well, so check out Marelli’s well-written article here.
