Great interview. HCB was getting into it eventually. Charlie Rose knows how to push people. All of you complaining about his tact would get about 2 minutes into an interview with Henri for fear of making him feel 'uncomfortable'.
Very pretentious twats in the comments. Just like most self proclaimed creatives or art enthusiasts. He seemed like he was beginning to enjoy the exchange after twenty minutes.
I wish they had sent Avedon to interview him. Now that would have made it really interesting. Avedon was a thinker, articulate, eloquent and obviously artistic, just like Cartier-Bresson. Loved to have heard the two of them converse.
There are no photographs I find more emotionally genuine or compelling than those of HCB. His vision transcends what most people are capable of seeing, much less what they are able to convey in their art.
If you want to get a feel for the style of Bresson's shooting, and some of the things he's talking about - I highly recommend buying an film Leica with a 50mm and go out shooting. Take it travelling and document the street. It is truly a marvelous way of documenting humanity.
Charlie is obtuse here, but he's an American Christian and not too schooled up in European 19th and 20th century culture, let alone the sensibilities and subtler values - or ethos - of that culture. Despite the circles he moves in, he's not well experienced with people outside his coastal set. He would have been intimidated too. He was sufficiently charming that Mr Cartier-Bresson felt it was worth pursuing the conversation and offering the many niceties and insights he eventually delivers.
Love Bresson's attitude! LOL So French! Besides his actions which seem sometimes rude or dismissive, he is extremely humble about the greatness and the gravity that we as photographers place on his work.
Charlie Rose handles this interview masterfully. Bresson starts as dismissive and short, Rose dosen't let him play that game but does so respectfully. There would be nothing to watch or learn here if Bresson had his way. It's concerning that few people understand that and attack Rose.....???
An artist, of course, cannot encapsulate or articulate the meaning of his life and art. It either stands on its own, ... or it falls or fails due to lack of depth and soul behind it. this interview is what you might well call, "painfully endured."
Wrong interviewer. Bresson clearly didn't like being the center of the interview - a mutual dialogue may have been more rewarding - some "sharing" of experience / thoughts ...
Rose's surprise at HCB defining himself as an Anarchist is laughable. Bresson comes from a time and place when Anarchism was not linked with violence and mayhem. Henri is such a beautiful man. A huge inspiration.
How brilliant this man was!! Does anyone know whether he was joking about not really taking that picture in India (he must have been, right?). Also, I'd like to point out that his last name is Cartier-Bresson (not Bresson), but thanks a lot for sharing!
Charlie Rose needs to respect the people he interviews more..for example, "The life you have lived"..The sentence should be - The life you are currently living..Just because he has aged, doesn't mean he has stopped living".✌️
If you can tolerate Bresson's cheek-puffing, eye-rolling Frenchness and Rose's downright stupid questions, you may find some real gems in this interview. I did.
η μετάφραση για τον όρο drawing είναι σκίτσο για τον HCB το οποίο επίσης υπηρέτησε στα νιάτα του και στο οποίο επέστρεψε αργότερα. Η ζωγραφική αποδίδεται καλύτερα με το painting...
Charlie Rose clearly doesn't understand that in anarchism nobody is above the other, everybody is equal and therefore someone being as popular and praised as Henri Cartier-Bresson is isn't a good thing for an anarchist, it is almost an embarrassment to be prolific. Anarchy isn't just about fighting or rebellion. You can tell HCB was getting annoyed with him
rose doesnt understand many things i think, but he is self confident, ignorant. i dont like the fake way he laughs, asks. why didnt they send so else??? there are very few hcb interviews and here they wasted a nice opportunity by sending ignorant selfconscious mr rose. argh!
You need another artist to understand an artist even without speaking the same language. This is a total blunder. HCB was uncomfortable right from the beginning.
Non-artists want to believe that there is a mystique about creating art. Henri says "I am just sensitive - anyone who is sensitive is an artist." The interview should have ended there.
i dont think he knows how to talk to people, why get somebody like this? he seems to know nothing of the art of photographing :/ such a wasted oppertunity to talk to this great man.
I'm not sure I would have agreed that HCB was an anarchist, as he described himself to be. He came across as far too anhedonic for that; or maybe he was just intimidated, or overwhelmed by the interviewer. Love his work though, even he didn't find much in it himself!
Henri and the interviewer have two totally different levels of sensitivity... This is painful to watch. The interviewer should have known that part of his job is establishing an empathetic relationship
Agreed. Charlie's style works for some subjects, but Henry is an extraordinarily sensitive man immersed within his emotion. Charlie's approach is too neanderthal (read: blunt) to begin to arouse the depths of Henry's spirit. Metaphorically, so many "pitches" were delivered to someone who doesn't do Charlie's kind of baseball. A bit like a bull in a china shop Henry has dealt with war and prison, so he is able to easily deal with Charlie's approach, but we are at a loss ... a missed opportunity by having a limited exchange. A bit of a waste.
Almost unbearable. Rose talks as if to a deaf person, to a three-year old, or to a mumbling senile idiot, all at the same time. HCB apparently granted this interview only reluctantly, and had his worst apprehensions materialized. When one has to say "Excuse me" to get his interviewer's attention, you know it's becoming a failure. Only Cartier-Bresson's love for the subject saved this from being a complete waste of time, and when his face lights up and he says 'Puff!', you forgive everything.
Never tough Cartier-Breason was such and arrogant person. But little by little the lid comes off. He was rude towards Ansel Adams because Ansel didn’t want to go and shot and social photos in time as of WWII, Ansel became a pinnacle of photography in his Medium. HCB used to be my favorite photographer but not anymore. What an arrogant person seems to be. BTW: The interviewer can look naive in his questions but that’s his job, to expose the questioning with simple questions even a non expert can understand. Not everyone understands the motivation of street photography, if he doesn’t ask, how the hell is it going to be expressed to a new generation or a child that doesn’t know anything about photography. Small people with big egos are the ones that react the way Cartier -Bresson In this interview. A petulant man
I does make you understand just how ignorant Charlie Rose is. Did he not prepare at all for this interview? Did he not do any research? An interview of a lifetime wasted...
The interviewer is clueless! It's disturbing to see such a great person, with such sense of selfnessness to be put to answer questions from someone so patronizing.
Charlie Rose ? It is abhorrent to listen the way he speaks. Speaking English is his previlage or what? CR should learn French and lets see how he speaks bonjuuuuuurerere?
This video is the perfect description of USA (Interviewer) and Europe (Henri). If you know what I mean, you know what I mean, if not - carry on.
HCB: "I was very lucky that I had always on the pocket...."
CR: "Money?"
HCB "No, films."
Neatly captures each man's driving force.
Hahahahaha I know man! Never thought I'd laugh so hard while watching an HCB interview! Bwahahaha
Beautiful interview with one of the greats. Not just in photography, but in all the wonderful forms of art.
Great interview. HCB was getting into it eventually. Charlie Rose knows how to push people. All of you complaining about his tact would get about 2 minutes into an interview with Henri for fear of making him feel 'uncomfortable'.
Very pretentious twats in the comments. Just like most self proclaimed creatives or art enthusiasts. He seemed like he was beginning to enjoy the exchange after twenty minutes.
Thanks for this interview..."I"m just a human being."...poor Charlie!
I wish they had sent Avedon to interview him. Now that would have made it really interesting. Avedon was a thinker, articulate, eloquent and obviously artistic, just like Cartier-Bresson.
Loved to have heard the two of them converse.
I think the most important thing i took from this is the thought that one should not think of taking a photo, more of receiving it.
There are no photographs I find more emotionally genuine or compelling than those of HCB. His vision transcends what most people are capable of seeing, much less what they are able to convey in their art.
If you want to get a feel for the style of Bresson's shooting, and some of the things he's talking about - I highly recommend buying an film Leica with a 50mm and go out shooting. Take it travelling and document the street. It is truly a marvelous way of documenting humanity.
A delightful portrait of the master of photography...
Charlie is obtuse here, but he's an American Christian and not too schooled up in European 19th and 20th century culture, let alone the sensibilities and subtler values - or ethos - of that culture. Despite the circles he moves in, he's not well experienced with people outside his coastal set. He would have been intimidated too. He was sufficiently charming that Mr Cartier-Bresson felt it was worth pursuing the conversation and offering the many niceties and insights he eventually delivers.
Ευχαριστώ Πολύ γι' αυτό το ανέβασμα !!!
What a wonderful interview, this guys is truly amazing.
what a wonderful and humble man.
I am happy to have heard this interview, how many opportunities to hear HCB ??? Thanks !
I can't get enough of this interview , i watch it every few days
Love Bresson's attitude! LOL So French! Besides his actions which seem sometimes rude or dismissive, he is extremely humble about the greatness and the gravity that we as photographers place on his work.
Μπράβο για την μετάφραση και τον υποτιτλισμό.Θενκς
Charlie Rose handles this interview masterfully. Bresson starts as dismissive and short, Rose dosen't let him play that game but does so respectfully. There would be nothing to watch or learn here if Bresson had his way. It's concerning that few people understand that and attack Rose.....???
An artist, of course, cannot encapsulate or articulate the meaning of his life and art. It either stands on its own, ... or it falls or fails due to lack of depth and soul behind it. this interview is what you might well call, "painfully endured."
+Len Hummel Beautiful!
Beautiful pics!
Συγχαρητηρια που τ μεταφρασετε!!!
was there another interview beside this guy? sorry for my english
Rose just could not understand Bresson's approach to the world. Amazing interview
Wrong interviewer. Bresson clearly didn't like being the center of the interview - a mutual dialogue may have been more rewarding - some "sharing" of experience / thoughts ...
Ahhhhh Avedon. What a man and photographer.
I see all these negative remarks about Charlie Rose - Charlie Rose was a lot younger then - Charlie Rose as an interviewer is right up there HCB!
+sonny corbi clearly
Rose's surprise at HCB defining himself as an Anarchist is laughable. Bresson comes from a time and place when Anarchism was not linked with violence and mayhem.
Henri is such a beautiful man. A huge inspiration.
Mr. Bresson had definitely respect for his friends.
I haven't appreciated Charlie Rose until now. Great interview.
Are you sure?
Could I please have the date of this interview?!
THANK YOU
GREAT UPLOAD
εισαι θεος φιλαρακο.........Σε ευχαριστω
How brilliant this man was!! Does anyone know whether he was joking about not really taking that picture in India (he must have been, right?).
Also, I'd like to point out that his last name is Cartier-Bresson (not Bresson), but thanks a lot for sharing!
fantastic.
i think its weird when the interviewer starts to argue his opinions on things to him...
Charlie Rose needs to respect the people he interviews more..for example, "The life you have lived"..The sentence should be - The life you are currently living..Just because he has aged, doesn't mean he has stopped living".✌️
Henry Cartier Bresson does NOT want his work to be intellectualised, why is it so difficult to understand that for the interviewer??
Perfectly put. Rose totally failed it seems like.
مقابلة مع المصور الأشهر في القرن العشرين هنري كاتيير بريسون
I'm an anarchist! Great great great Cartier Bresson!
Great photographer, good anchor, but this is painful to watch. HCB seems so uncomfortable.
Man, Bresson just takes Rose to school. "I answer only to the police."
If you can tolerate Bresson's cheek-puffing, eye-rolling Frenchness and Rose's downright stupid questions, you may find some real gems in this interview. I did.
Your are either alive or not! Wow~!
η μετάφραση για τον όρο drawing είναι σκίτσο για τον HCB το οποίο επίσης υπηρέτησε στα νιάτα του και στο οποίο επέστρεψε αργότερα. Η ζωγραφική αποδίδεται καλύτερα με το painting...
Interviewer = Left Brain Thinking
Bresson = Right Brain Thinking
he says that Seymour was a thinker and Capa was an adventurer, but what does he say he was?
Charlie Rose clearly doesn't understand that in anarchism nobody is above the other, everybody is equal and therefore someone being as popular and praised as Henri Cartier-Bresson is isn't a good thing for an anarchist, it is almost an embarrassment to be prolific. Anarchy isn't just about fighting or rebellion. You can tell HCB was getting annoyed with him
rose doesnt understand many things i think, but he is self confident, ignorant. i dont like the fake way he laughs, asks. why didnt they send so else???
there are very few hcb interviews and here they wasted a nice opportunity by sending ignorant selfconscious mr rose. argh!
+Juan Gonzalez yeh, what a complete fuck up. HCB is a god of photography and this douche bag who doesnt give a shit gets to breathe the same air.
Cartier-Bresson is light-years ahead of the guy making the interview.
Very stupid questions, but if you are into art you have to listen to this guy.
You need another artist to understand an artist even without speaking the same language. This is a total blunder. HCB was uncomfortable right from the beginning.
Yes - just like in this film: th-cam.com/video/ZYYwqo8HKbw/w-d-xo.html
Non-artists want to believe that there is a mystique about creating art. Henri says "I am just sensitive - anyone who is sensitive is an artist." The interview should have ended there.
He should have given him the drink at the start
he may not have been who knows. I saw another interview where he said that he sometimes had friends help him take the pictures, but who knows.
This is a simple illustration of Depth.
Rose was a real jerk. You can see the frustration in Henri's face.
this interview is not really pleasant...he obvious doesn't know how to interview a photographer
i dont think he knows how to talk to people, why get somebody like this? he seems to know nothing of the art of photographing :/ such a wasted oppertunity to talk to this great man.
Time to smoke a blunt!
The style of interviewing performed by Charlie Rose is disrespectful, embarrassing and darn right arrogant.
+neil mcwhirter Yeh, how can such a douche bag even get to be in the same country as him?
Think its a good honest interview
bresson must have thought afterwards "because of interviewers like that I don't give interviews".
HCB looks so bored in this interview. Hes like, look there's not big fuckin secret, just go out and take damn photos! lol
He wasn´t joking about the picture else he wouldn´t say so :)
I'm not sure I would have agreed that HCB was an anarchist, as he described himself to be. He came across as far too anhedonic for that; or maybe he was just intimidated, or overwhelmed by the interviewer. Love his work though, even he didn't find much in it himself!
Most awkward interview ever. Bresson seems to had completely moved on from photography.
nice guy
Rose just won't let up with idolizing.
can you blame him?
An example of how "Kiss principle" is not understood.
Henri and the interviewer have two totally different levels of sensitivity... This is painful to watch. The interviewer should have known that part of his job is establishing an empathetic relationship
Agreed. Charlie's style works for some subjects, but Henry is an extraordinarily sensitive man immersed within his emotion. Charlie's approach is too neanderthal (read: blunt) to begin to arouse the depths of Henry's spirit. Metaphorically, so many "pitches" were delivered to someone who doesn't do Charlie's kind of baseball. A bit like a bull in a china shop
Henry has dealt with war and prison, so he is able to easily deal with Charlie's approach, but we are at a loss ... a missed opportunity by having a limited exchange. A bit of a waste.
Interviewer = Idiot Henri Cartier Bresson = GENIUS
!!1
Oh, the interviewer doesn't understand...
Almost unbearable. Rose talks as if to a deaf person, to a three-year old, or to a mumbling senile idiot, all at the same time. HCB apparently granted this interview only reluctantly, and had his worst apprehensions materialized.
When one has to say "Excuse me" to get his interviewer's attention, you know it's becoming a failure. Only Cartier-Bresson's love for the subject saved this from being a complete waste of time, and when his face lights up and he says 'Puff!', you forgive everything.
Good grief! Not everyone enjoys being interviewed. Give them all a break.
Can hardly hear a word C-B is saying...and ye man is too overpowering and crass for this sensitive soul.
the genius and the fool
Ha ha your comment cracked me up :)
Never tough Cartier-Breason was such and arrogant person. But little by little the lid comes off. He was rude towards Ansel Adams because Ansel didn’t want to go and shot and social photos in time as of WWII, Ansel became a pinnacle of photography in his Medium. HCB used to be my favorite photographer but not anymore. What an arrogant person seems to be.
BTW: The interviewer can look naive in his questions but that’s his job, to expose the questioning with simple questions even a non expert can understand. Not everyone understands the motivation of street photography, if he doesn’t ask, how the hell is it going to be expressed to a new generation or a child that doesn’t know anything about photography.
Small people with big egos are the ones that react the way Cartier -Bresson In this interview. A petulant man
hcb does not seem to feel very comfortable there. rose has not enough sensitivity for this kind of interview ....
I does make you understand just how ignorant Charlie Rose is. Did he not prepare at all for this interview? Did he not do any research? An interview of a lifetime wasted...
The interviewer is clueless! It's disturbing to see such a great person, with such sense of selfnessness to be put to answer questions from someone so patronizing.
Everytime i hear an American saying photography..photographer - it sounds like sex :/
Why don't you guys make up your mind,first it's Robert Frank, then it's. Henri Cartier.
Can't stand the interviewer. Seems more interested with how he comes across and how his questions come across than the actual subject himself
The was embarrasing to watch. Charlie Rose is ignorant and bombastic. HCB lost his patience.
this interview should have been done by avedon, not by this obnoxious interviewer
Charlie Rose ?
It is abhorrent to listen the way he speaks. Speaking English is his previlage or what? CR should learn French and lets see how he speaks bonjuuuuuurerere?
A really appalling interview by a patronising interviewer.
Embarressing and inappropriate interviewer