Thought #9. Coming into your own.
I’ve always considered Cartier-Bresson’s photography awe-inspiring . Being a pioneer of Street Photography, he was the one who coined the term “decisive moment”. From then on , it has been broadly used when referring to the split second of inspiration when the photographer comes into his own . In his epoch photography was relatively a new art medium and most of the artists he was contemporary with looked down on photographers, considering the whole medium a fleeting craze , a pale imitation of the classic arts. I clearly remember the first time I saw the picture of the cyclist, the staircase and the cobbled street. A mixture of patterns finely arranged to create a unique and special snapshot that could linger in my memory forever . And then it was the one of the man skipping a puddle. I became obsessed with lines and patterns, at times seeing the order in the chaos. So it was little wonder that someday I would try my luck at street photogr...