Conversations in Silence
By Philip Brookman
He is ultimately like a painter with a palette of light, a draftsman with the geometry of everyday life. His images are infused with a naturalness that emerges from the illumination of the world — light reflecting what is real — reconstituted in luminous, grainy, black-and-white. For an artist renowned as one of the finest photographers of the human landscape, it seems especially revealing that today, at 91, Henri Cartier-Bresson likes to speak most about drawing and painting.
He now spends a great deal of time without his trusty Leica camera, drawing sketches of people and landscapes, still observing the world around him. But through five decades of extensive travel and significant friendships with artists, scientists and political figures — all in pursuit of his vision — Cartier-Bresson was not often without his Leica. With it, he helped reinvent photojournalism after World War II...Read more here.
