Why is Cartier-Bresson so highly rated?

Photography as a art was always been a meme and not take seriously. Just look at picturalism and etc..

What made those photographers famous were their connections.

>>3046207
brainlet detected

the left railing curves and leads your eye to the biker. the curve of the steps also leads into this curve.

pretty amazin if you ask me senpai

>>3046201
It's not like they were exceptionally talented. They just took a shit load of pictures, enough pictures that some of them have wikipedia pages.

>>3046201
Photography and art in general has always been subjective. It has become more about name recognition than the actual photo itself. I've seen some damn good photos on facebook by some random person with an iphone, but they don't mean shit in the 'art world' or 'photography world' because some random took it with an iphone.

>>3046213
So HCB = isi without the sex change?
Neat.

>>3046201
that photograph was made in 1931, is why it's so highly rated

>>3046213
>They just took a shit load of pictures
That's how you get good in the first place. You can't become good just by looking at a couple of books and youtube videos. You work on your work by doing it.

But all your unsuccessful snapshits are still important to you because they are the ones that teach you to make the small percentage that are good.

>>3046201
good art doesn't really try to communicate something that you can translate into a coherent sentence like "the artist means...", thats a recipe for creating hamfisted pieces of shit.

most good art just creates a gut response, be it disgust or enthusiasm in the viewer, while also exploring formal questions..

HCB, with his notion of the decisive moment was pioneering in exploring what is one of the essential qualities of photography as a medium.

>>3046397
While I dont agree with that simplistic way of understanding the "aesthetic experience" at least it is refreshing seeing someone say something coherent in this hellhole.

>>3046201
With most historical events (and creations) you need to set yourself in context. It might not seem as a particularly impressive image now (in a post neo avantgarde world of overly saturated, always ready 40 megapixel porn) But at the time HCB was experimenting and proposing ideas regarding composition that were quite striking. Aside from that the image still retains aesthetically pleasing forms that make it timeless. It is also a quintessential representation of the concept of the decisive moment. and finally, as always, it serves as a document of its time (shot by one of the founding fathers of one of the most respected photo agencies in the world)

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>>3046201
He was innovative for the time. The stuff that seems really cliche now was new and exciting when he did it.

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>What does this photo communicate aside from "I know the rules of composition"?
Mothing, that's the point. You can open any HCB photobook knowing there's not gonna be anything that challenges your ontological certainties. It's the muzak of photography.

looks like a piece of german expressionism, both in shape and tone, but made not in a set with its proportions distorted on purpose, but in real life. its a surreal, interesting and very crazy pic, better than all the trash thats out there, and than this whole piece of shit board combined.

>>3046201
It's like photography for photographers. Photography for photography's sake. An exercise in design, timing, and patience, a hobby. I've always appreciated a well taken photo, even if there's no "point" to it beyond that. I'm not saying people should never seek out good subjects or tell deeper stories but the love of that "moment" and turning ordinary into extraordinary is what got me into photography to begin with.

>>3046752
exactly

people who arent into photography either dont think it's an art form altogether or dont think stuff like OP if aesthetically pleasing.

I mean, it's all your opinion whether you like something.

>>3046720
>ontological certainties
Holy fk you're an idiot.