Slow Photography

Very Large Array in Soccorro NM Jim Austin 2013.   "Photography is nothing, it's life that interests me"  ~Henri Cartier-Bresson We live. We photograph. In living, we find moments of joy. We do Slow Photography in celebration of life. In case we forget, the work of French photographer Cartier-Bresson reminds us that life itself is more valuable than photography. It may seem contradictory to explore Slow Photography alongside the work of the father of the Decisive Moment. Isn't it a fact that Bresson's pictures were entirely about fast- paced, trapped, split second moments in time? Dock in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Jim Austin 2013. No. It goes much deeper than that.  Bresson painted. He sketched. Encouraged by his uncle, an artist, he studied painting, immersing himself in a Surrealist philosophy of art.  Later, as he photographed, Bresson's work emerged from his early concepts of what fine art can express. His frame was h...