THE NEGATIVE BEHIND THE SHOT – BRESSON
Thanks to the website Leicaphilia for posting this shot of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s negative and portrait of the “decisive moment” he made so famous in still photography over 80 years ago.
“There was a plank fence around some repairs behind the Gare St. Lazare and I was peeking through the space with my camera at my eye. This is what I saw. The space between the planks was not entirely wide enough for my lens, which is the reason the picture is cut off on the left.†– HCB
Bresson was already considered one of the world’s greatest photographer when Time magazine named this image “The Photo of the Centuryâ€:
1932 Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, France (original and cropped print)
(Photographers of negative and HCB: Unknown)