Signature of the instant in photographs: Causality, geometry and expectancy in Henri Cartier-Bresson and Pierre Verger

Authors

  • Benjamim Picado universidade federal fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2013.151.02

Abstract

This paper proposes an examination on some parameters of a hypothetical study of style in photographs. Departing from examples taken from the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Pierre Verger, we seek to examine three aspects of images that could end up serving as marks for a purposeful pattern in photojournalism and documentary photography: the management of causal elements in the photographic process, the functions of geometry in conducting a photographic discourse, and the regimes of expectancy, which define the relationships between fixation of the instantaneous and its origin in duration.

Key words: photograph, causality, geometry, expectancy, Pierre Verger, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Author Biography

Benjamim Picado, universidade federal fluminense

doutor em comunciação e semiótica, puc-sp

professor do departamento de estudos culturais e mídia

univerdidade federal fluminense

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Published

2012-08-30

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2013): January/April

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