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"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The Importance of Composition

“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.” ~ Henri Cartier Bresson



Henri Cartier-Bresson

Here is a short slideshow featuring the works of many great street photographers and their use of composition. The masters use composition to elevate the images from good to great. Add these examples to your mind's image bank. Once you immerse yourself in great photography and art you will start to see these patterns and relationships between objects in your own work as you frame your composition.

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Introduction to Composition for Street Photography (Gulf Photo Plus 2014) from erickimphotography


"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
~ Claude Monet

 

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Milton Glaser: The Greatest Graphic Designer Alive on Art, Purpose, and the Capacity for Astonishment




“That’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears.”
~ MILTON GLASER


Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929, in New York City) is an American graphic designer, best known for the I ♥ NY logo, his Bob Dylan poster, the DC bullet logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.