Decisive moments
It’s all in the timing
For other examples:
Henri Cartier-Bresson p. 11
Marc Asnin p. 13
Cristina Garcia Rodero p. 15
Maciej Dakowicz p. 116
A man walks into frame with a cockatoo perched on his shoulder. A Rottweiler on the prowl glances to the right. A couple embrace and a character seemingly exhausted by life slumps in the middle of the frame. What kind of strange New York allegory is this?
Here, Melanie Einzig captures four very separate, unrelated ‘elements’ as they come together for a single moment. A second later and this beautifully odd quartet would have moved on, never to meet again.
Knowing exactly when to press the shutter is one of the single most important aspects of photography. It’s what Henri Cartier-Bresson called ...
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