Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare

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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare

Upon picking up a Leica camera in the early 1930s, Henri Cartier-Bresson fell in love with the spontaneity of photography and went on to pioneer photojournalism. With his “uncanny ability to capture life on the run” with helping to define the creative potential of modern.

Taking pride in capturing “the decisive moment, “Cartier-Bresson intimately captured portraits and scenes, both mundane and historic, around the world. “To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life,” he said.

Cartier-Bresson, shooting with a 35-millimeter camera and no flash, saw these components all come together for a brief moment and clicked his shutter. 

The image would become the quintessential example of Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” his lyrical term for the ability to immortalise a fleeting scene on film. A fast, mobile, detail-obsessed style would help chart the course for all of modern photography.

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1932

Historians regard “Behind The Gare Saint-Lazare” as his most iconic photograph. He took the black and white photograph in 1932 outside the Saint-Lazar train station in Paris.

‘Photography is just luck. There was a fence, and I poked my camera through the fence. It’s a fraction of a second.’ –HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

The resulting image is a masterpiece of form and light. As a man leaps across the water, evoking the dancers in a poster on the wall behind him, the ripples in the puddle around the ladder mimic the curved metal pieces nearby.

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thats fantastic..