In earlier chapters, when we talk about art, we talk about paintings because camera were not practical for common art. In their earliest years, they were just used for portraits and pictures for newspapers. It was very uncommon for people to be running around with camera like the people of today, snapping a picture every 10 seconds. However, today, photography is a main staple in the art business and I felt it was only right to talk about photography as art in this more modern chapter. Photography has evolved into being a memory keeper, journalism documentation, and art itself. Photographers wait for that one moment to capture, and if they get it, they have accomplished what they need. One person who believed in the idea of capturing the right moment was Henri Cartier-Bresson.
“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.”- Cartier-Bresson
Cartier-Bresson is known as the father of modern photojournalism and found his influence in French Surrealism in that meanings lie beneath the surface of everyday life and through photography, he would capture it. He believed "the context of a gesture, a meeting or a setting in a photograph could convey great beauty or emotion" and from this he developed his own style of photography, "street photography," which still exists today.
(Quotes and info from: http://chriscctan.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-decisive-moment/)
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