Masters Of Light

is more than just 4

it a photograph

Prince Parimal

with

Vedanta Mohapatra

Well, it is true that "A picture
is worth a thousand words."
But how often do we know the
things that take place to get
that shot? Is it spontaneous, or
is it meticulously planned? And
even if it is, do they go as per

the plan?

Mobile Phone Photography 69

Albert Camus
1944
Henry Cartier-Bresson

Marylin Monroe
1961

Henry Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier Bresson, a French

photographer, transitioned to

surrealist photography from

painted skills, where he made quite

a reputation for himself. Later on,

the advice of Robert Capa made

Cartier-Bresson move towards the


booming field of news

photography. In 1937, Cartier-

Bresson joined the staff of ''Ce

soir'', a communist daily paper in

France, and was sent to England

to cover the coronation of King

George the six. But, instead of

photographing the coronation, he

decided to turn his lens away to

document the attending crowds.

He found the British people much

more of an exciting subject to

photograph all the pomp of the


coronation.

Henri Cartier Bresson, a French

photographer, transitioned to

surrealist photography from

painted skills, where he made quite

a reputation for himself. Later on,

the advice of Robert Capa made

Cartier-Bresson move towards the


booming field of news

photography. In 1937, Cartier-

Bresson joined the staff of ''Ce

soir'', a communist daily paper in

France, and was sent to England

to cover the coronation of King

George the six. But, instead of

photographing the coronation, he

decided to turn his lens away to

document the attending crowds.

He found the British people much

more of an exciting subject to

photograph all the pomp of the


coronation.

The Cowboy
1989
Richard Prince

"The more controversial the art is,

the more valuable it becomes."

Richard Prince began as a painter

in the 1970s but quickly turned to

photography and developed the


controversial practice of

rephotographed; this means

talking about a pre-existing

photograph and reusing it in a new

context with slight alterations

regarded as the high point of this

technique. Prince's untitled Cowboy


is said to be the ultimate

deconstruction of the American

dream, a copy of the photograph,


which is a copy of an

advertisement that is, in turn, a

copy of the ultimate cowboy myth.

The print certainly captured a

culture and was sold at Sasuke's

New York in June 2013 for just over


3 million dollars.