@TheMaxlow Actually you could find one online for around 300 dollars. I found at least 3! Then I went to the local camera store "Christian Photo" they had the same selection for the same price. You should be able to find one!
cool vid! when i took up photography and i was searching for the right photogapher to be my guide, i've choosen 2..one was philipe halsman and the other is HCB.
i became even more interested in photography bcuz of them both.
35mm,50mm and 90mm is considered complete at that age.
Leica he was one of the 1st photogs to use small format cameras, and owned 1 of the first copies of the then (1928-1930) new Leica 135 film format. famously he is supposed to have just used a 50mm lens for every thing he shot, but this is sadly not true he also used a small number of other lenses 35mm and 90mm mostly.
He stopped taking photos in 1975 returning to painting.
Ok yes a 50mm lens, there is a myth that he only used one lens, but one only has to look at his images to know that is not true.
My best guess is that stated above.
Yes he most certanly used a M3 at some point but he would have started with one of the first screw mount Leica's. Most likely a II then III. The Leica M3 was introduced in 1954 so HCB would have been taking photos for thirty years by then!
Thanks for the series RangefinderGeneral... The most fascinating thing about this is that the Gare St. Lazare image (man jumping) which arguably the greatest image of the 21st century is taken without him looking through the viewfinder!!
Bresson had no interest in the photographic process, and never developed or enlarged his negetives! It was the image he was after. I think he would have embraced digital photography.
Digital photography has killed the true meaning of photography. A digital photographer is not a photographer nor an artist. Bresson used film and was a photographer ad an artist.
With all due respect, I'm not sure that digital has killed photography, but rather it has brought an end to the era of classical photography. I work with ultra large format film cameras and I am aware that I am one of the last to do so. Over the past 60 years change in photography has concerned itself with convenience not quality, it's a real shame.
What is also remarkable in my view about Giacometti is that the tree at the forefront does look like one of hie sculpture...
bebenut123 5 months ago
Cartier Bresson used a Leica III ( not M3!!!) and a 50mm
sauroborsi 1 year ago
What amazed me was this man, way advanced in age, but still with the demeanor and personality of a very young man - still quick and witty! A genius!!
vgabrie 1 year ago
i would love to use a film camera but unfortuntly its far too expensive
the way light reacts to film is so much more pleasing than with digital.
TheMaxlow 1 year ago
@TheMaxlow Actually you could find one online for around 300 dollars. I found at least 3! Then I went to the local camera store "Christian Photo" they had the same selection for the same price. You should be able to find one!
sashiahaha 1 month ago
An important writer about an important photographer.
CaptainBluebear08 1 year ago
" It's always luck"????? Sorry, Mr. HC-B. It's not luck, it's freakin' genius.
Kingfotog 1 year ago 2
I like that one of most celebrated photographers of all time admits to the play of luck.
vichiousfishes 2 years ago 10
Thank you for posting this! It would be cool if more people knew about him. Especially in this digital age.
petepeteseattle 2 years ago
cool vid! when i took up photography and i was searching for the right photogapher to be my guide, i've choosen 2..one was philipe halsman and the other is HCB.
i became even more interested in photography bcuz of them both.
35mm,50mm and 90mm is considered complete at that age.
kadirchan 2 years ago
what kind of camera did henri used?
kpkp93 2 years ago
kpkp93,
I think you must be kidding!!!!!????
OK here we go....
Leica he was one of the 1st photogs to use small format cameras, and owned 1 of the first copies of the then (1928-1930) new Leica 135 film format. famously he is supposed to have just used a 50mm lens for every thing he shot, but this is sadly not true he also used a small number of other lenses 35mm and 90mm mostly.
He stopped taking photos in 1975 returning to painting.
Rangefindergeneral 2 years ago
Leica M3.
thetttttttttttt 2 years ago
a Leica with a 50mm lense
exxaye 2 years ago
Ok yes a 50mm lens, there is a myth that he only used one lens, but one only has to look at his images to know that is not true.
My best guess is that stated above.
Yes he most certanly used a M3 at some point but he would have started with one of the first screw mount Leica's. Most likely a II then III. The Leica M3 was introduced in 1954 so HCB would have been taking photos for thirty years by then!
Rangefindergeneral 2 years ago
Thanks for the series RangefinderGeneral... The most fascinating thing about this is that the Gare St. Lazare image (man jumping) which arguably the greatest image of the 21st century is taken without him looking through the viewfinder!!
beboy73 2 years ago
20th Century Beboy!
Hey that's almost funny?
Rangefindergeneral 2 years ago
Lol! You're right. darn keyboard.
beboy73 2 years ago
Bresson had no interest in the photographic process, and never developed or enlarged his negetives! It was the image he was after. I think he would have embraced digital photography.
nichegreek1 2 years ago
Does he weep at 5.58?
proust72 3 years ago
Digital photography has killed the true meaning of photography. A digital photographer is not a photographer nor an artist. Bresson used film and was a photographer ad an artist.
jun7per 3 years ago
With all due respect, I'm not sure that digital has killed photography, but rather it has brought an end to the era of classical photography. I work with ultra large format film cameras and I am aware that I am one of the last to do so. Over the past 60 years change in photography has concerned itself with convenience not quality, it's a real shame.
firefighterps2 3 years ago 3
Hey CD was going to kill vinyl records now it looks like the CD will be the first to say uncle.
I love my DSLR but I still like silver, and I think Henri would today be shooting a M8!
Rangefindergeneral 3 years ago
That is a totally asinine statement.
jthawley 2 years ago
I want to be a photographer when I graduate, and I understand what he says, he is amazing.
missminihinata 3 years ago
I have always enjoyed listening to Bresson's interviews.
photographyisfun 3 years ago
thanks a lot!!
goyt3 3 years ago
Thanks a lot.
rafael982 3 years ago
Rangefinder general - many thanks for all the HCB uploads - they are outstanding and fascinating.
mickjamm 3 years ago
Great!
Thank you.
belltcm 4 years ago