Henri wanders into the camera finds one of his decisive instincts pulls out the camera and shoots. They are those images that he said were a la sauvette on the fly like a fluid automatic gesture devoid of rationality. Martines Legs Henri says For the surrealists photography was equivalent on the visual level to what automatic writing represented for poetry the camera made the hidden unconscious of the gaze emerge. For Zen every artistic gesture was rooted in the very act of seeing.
It was not so much a question of making a photograph e-commerce photo editing as of capturing it a fragment of reality was identified by an instant of the spirit the event was placed in the middle of the aesthetic. The photographer was not a hunter of images but a fisherman of moments he cast the hook waiting for time and reality to bite. Cartier Bresson used to say that he did not take photographs but on the contrary the photographs took him. And when he felt the need to bequeath us a manifesto he wrote this advice Put the eye heart and brain in the same spotlight.
He spared instead to remind us that in addition and above all we should invoke by gently rubbing our wonderful camera the epiphanic apparition of genius. Henri Paris Henri met David Chim Seymour and Robert Capa with whom he. It was Robert Capa who urged to abandon surrealism when he advised him Dont pigeonhole yourself with the label of surrealist photographer. Become a photojournalist keep surrealism in your heart.