Henri Cartier-Bresson :: The Decisive Moment

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 31 October 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Considering the release date of this video, I thought I'd cover a topic appropriate for the season - Photography and the Occult. There was an extreme period of occult photography that was produced from the 1870's to about the 1930's. Gimmicks and techniques were used into fooling people that the supernatural was somehow being photographed (quite consistently I might add). This period of history can typically be organized into 3 categories: Photography of Spirits, Photography of Fluids and Photography of Mediums. In this video we will have a look at the occult and how photography played a roll in the theater of the supernatural. SPONSOR: This episode is sponsored by Audiblepodcast - for a free audio book of your choice - visit http://audiblepodcast.com/aop Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved!

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0:15.0	What's up everybody? Welcome back to the show. In this video I want to take a look at what is probably one of the most important photography monographs ever produced and of course this is Henri Catee Ebrissons the decisive moment. This was produced in the early 1950s and this version is actually the reissue version that Stitel did earlier this year. Stitel, I think, is one of the most
0:18.7	important book publishers And its original pressing only had 10,000 copies and it is really hard to find now.
0:35.2	So I think it's really cool that Stuyall reissued this.
0:37.4	The reissue is fantastic.
0:39.3	And what I want to do in this video today is take a look at this and show you guys what I believe makes this book
0:45.5	as Robert Kappa called it a Bible for photographers and it really is impressive and
0:50.0	quite amazing. The book comes with the original Matisse artwork. It kind of looks like it did when it was originally released.
0:57.0	And it comes actually in two parts when you take the slipcase off. You get the reissue of the book and that's this part right here and then you also get this little
1:06.7	you know pamphlet book which is sort of behind the scenes and I think in a lot of ways it's
1:11.3	really cool because it acts as a little bit of a
1:13.1	lynch pen in terms of understanding the importance of this book and learning a lot of
1:19.0	behind the scenes about it too which actually is quite fascinating. The book came about as a collaboration.
1:25.0	Henri Cartier Boussaint had attempted to do several books prior to this book's release.
1:30.4	In fact, there was a project with Jean Coo that never was realized and there were two others.
1:35.4	And then finally, the decisive moment was the first one that actually came about.
1:39.2	And it began, the whole book is largely a collaboration among a bunch of people but the book
1:44.0	actually initially was a collaboration between Katee Vissant and a French
1:48.2	designer who went by the name Tiriad. Tiriad is seen in this photo here holding up the original artwork and I'll talk about some of this in a minute.
1:56.0	Now Terriad had been publishing a magazine called Verve, which was an art publication at the time.
2:02.0	And Henri Cartier-Bissant had a really interesting career in that he
2:06.2	he moved between the world of photojournalism which he was firmly committed to and
2:11.7	also the world of fine art.
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