December, 2006 Archive

Henri Cartier Bresson on Charlie Rose, 2000

Davin — December 6th, 2006

Recently noted on Alec Soth’s blog, this lengthy interview with Henri Cartier Bresson is interesting although much of his motives/ideology are already quite well known. I do find that there is too much reverence for Cartier Bresson than even he may have preferred but it’s not surprising as much of our society is quick to need “heroic” figures. There’s no question of Cartier Bresson’s impact but I think there’s a separate problem in our need to make finite the number of people who mattered — people who set that example that all others must have followed. It’s our unfortunate nature (and certainly that of art history) that the hero in history is propelled forth.

On this it might be interesting to re-visit a text from my highschool history class, “The Hero in History: A Study in Limitation and Possibility” Sidney Hook, 1943

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