Three Minds On Digital Marketing @ Organic

I just (finally) watched a special on Sundance called Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye - released in 2003 (one year before the artist's death).

While I wasn't at all impressed with the directing or even the concept of the film, I was reminded why he's my all time favorite photographer. If you can get passed hearing his every word through an interpreter and what might be lost in translation (HCB is French) and just WATCH him speak and interact with his own work, you'll fall in love with this old man, too.

He comes across as this regular grandpa-style guy. He sits at his kitchen table pawing at stacks of photographs not concerned with fingerprints or creases or dust - with no regard for his work as the precious objects they are. He's just THIS GUY looking at his "snapshots" - delving back into endless memories of captured moments in his life. He's been just about everywhere in the world and met just about every significant person over his 40+ year photography career. And he's still just THIS GUY - this guy who lived 600 lives worth.

He wasn't caught up in the technology of the camera or the deeper meaning of his photographs. He didn't even print his own work. His only concern was capturing what he saw in a pleasing and "geometric" way. It's really beautiful to watch such a master interact with his work in such an unpretentious way.

He's inspired me all over again.

Sandy Marsh