Pictorial Print of the Month

PSA Journal, May, 2004 by LaVonna Hitz

With "a big thank you" to Tony and Lois Winston, APSAs, for the interesting newsletter they put out each month giving the scores and winners of the Print of the Month contest. We delight in picking up the points of interest they include.

Following is one they found by Henri Cartier-Bresson as stated in The Europeans, 1955:

"In photography, the creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. No tricks, no afterthoughts: the live moment. One makes a painting whereas one takes a picture."