Posts in Great Photographers
"Tete a Tete" Portraits by Henri Cartiere-Bresson

My latest library find is  "Tete a Tete" by one of the greatest photographers of all times - HCB (Henri Cartier-Bresson). HCB is more known for his street photographs than portraiture. It was interesting to find a book concentrating on this less known part of his photographic legacy in my small, local Fremantle library. E. H. Gombrich in his introduction concerns himself more with the concept of a "good" portrait than with work of HCB. I quite liked it actually as he asks some really interesting questions in the process.

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Bruce Gilden’s Picnic with Sergey

I’ll focus on just this one photo essay by Bruce Gilden. He is a highly controversial photographer, pages after pages could be written just about him.
This essay is known either as a “Picnic with a Gangster” or “Picnic with Sergey”. As you can imagine Sergey is a (small time-time)gangster. He ‘s Russian who’s whole life has been shaped by Soviet Union. He’s familiar to me a little, I am Polish and I’ve seen this type before a few times.

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Trent Parke- Magnum Photographer

If you want to be a better photographer you need to study the masters. Buy their books, look at their photographs, find out how they work and think. One of the masters for me is Trent Parke. I'll skip the bio note here. All the information can be found on the Magnum website (his photographs as well) My favorite work of his is the series of photos taken during a trip around Australia (Minutes to Midnight) which took more than 2 years to complete.

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