An exciting new London exhibition pits Henri Cartier-Bresson,famed for eschewing colour in his photography, against some of the best colour photographers of our time
[br]• Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour – in picturesHenri Cartier-Bresson once said: "Photography in colour? It is something indigestible, or the negation of all photography's three-dimensional values." This rejection of colour was based on snobbery (colour was the medium of commerce and advertising) and common sense – during most of his lifetime,colour photography was still a fledgling, rudimentary medium. How intriguing, or then,to see a small, carefully chosen choice of his lesser-known work pitted against some of the grand colour photographers of recent times, and all of whom adhere in varying degrees to Cartier-Bresson's ethos of the "decisive moment".
The curator of Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour,which opens this week at Somerset House in London, spelled out the rationale behind the show. "My proposition is simple: purchase the ethos of the decisive moment, and discover at how colour photographers have actually fared. Put differently,if we purchase Cartier-Bresson's scepticism approximately colour photography as a challenge, how convincing is the response?"Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com