Born in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne, Henri Cartier-Bresson developed a strong fascination with painting early on, and particularly with Surrealism. In 1932, after spending a year in the Ivory Coast, he discovered the Leica - his camera of choice thereafter - and began a life-long passion for photography. In 1933 he had his first exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. He later made films with Jean Renoir. Taken prisoner of war in 1940, he escaped on his third attempt in 1943 and subsequently joined an underground organization to assist prisoners and escapees. In 1945 he photographed the liberation of Paris with a group of professional journalists and then filmed the documentary Le Retour (The Return). In 1947, with Robert Capa, George Rodger, David 'Chim' Seymour and William Vandivert, he founded Magnum Photos. After three years spent travelling in the East, in 1952 he returned to Europe, where he published his first book, Images à la Sauvette (published in English as The Decisive Moment). He explained his approach to photography in these terms, '"For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression." From 1968 he began to curtail his photographic activities, preferring to concentrate on drawing and painting. In 2003, with his wife and daughter, he created the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris for the preservation of his work. Cartier-Bresson received an extraordinary number of prizes, awards and honorary doctorates. He died at his home in Provence on 3 August 2004, a few weeks short of his 96th birthday.
Quote: "To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life." Henri Cartier-Bresson was a Magnum founder and a full Member since 1947.
Henry Valentine Miller (26 December 1891 – 7 June 1980)
was an Americannovelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricornand Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
ここで重要なのは、「今では陳腐なシナリオ」ということになってしまうという部分ではないかと思われます。 何故「陳腐」なのか? 2000年代に入り、あまりにもあからさまに様々な出来事が起こるので、人はその非現実的な出来事の理由と原因を説明できないまま、すべてはテロ集団の悪という図式を鵜呑みにし、納得しようと努力している。本当にテレビや新聞の説明で、納得していますか? そんなはずはないと僕は思う。 「陰謀論」=「陳腐」という図式が出来上がり、The Parallax Viewのような作品が生産されにくくなっているのが現状です。 The Parallax Viewは、かつては存在し、今では絶滅しかけているまっとうなメディアによる巧妙な内部告発の映画です。 「イーグル・アイ」などは子供だまし以上に大衆のミスリーディングを引き起こす可能性すらあると、僕は危惧します。これは遊園地的な娯楽作品であり、現実がこんな風になるわけないだろうと、大衆に念を押す機能を持つ映画です。 ただし、監督によれば'70年代のThe Parallax View等の映画を念頭に入れて作ったということなので、ひょっとしたら新しい風が吹いているのかもしれませんが。 幸いなことに、2009年今現在、ハリウッド製大衆操作娯楽作品は確実に観客動員を減らしています。 The Parallax Viewという映画が示唆したのも、暗殺という陰謀のみならず大衆操作という手段の存在でした。 グレン・エリクソンという人がこの映画について次のように述べています。
「 ......The Parallax Corporation controls the minds of men through the persuasion of cinema propaganda. Are we really affected by the barrage of images in our daily lives? Perhaps the lesson of the 'Audition Film' of Parallax should be that EVERY SHOW and every image we see has the potential to affect us, and that none of us is immune. 」 (Text Copyright 1999 Glenn Erickson)
つまり、免疫のない我々をメディアが操作するのは容易いということです。 意識のあるジャーナリストを洗脳しようとするこの映画の最も有名な場面を観て欲しい。 きっと、身近な何かに気がつくはずだ。 パララックスとは「視差」のこと。カメラのファインダーから覗いた風景と実際に撮影される風景のずれ。僕らは見えたとおりの現実を生きているわけではないということ。 The Parallax Viewは、今そこにあるのだから。