Henri-Cartier Bresson anozivikanwa nokuda kwechii?
Context:Magnum Mifananidzo Mukutanga kwa1947, Cartier-Bresson, naRobert Capa, David Seymour, William Vandivert naGeorge Rodger vakatanga Magnum Photos. Chibereko chendangariro chaCapa, Magnum yakanga iri sangano romufananidzo rinobatsirana raiva nemitezo yaro. Boka racho rakagovera migove yemifananidzo pakati pemitezo. Rodger, uyo akanga asiya Life muLondon pashure pokunyora nezveHondo Yenyika II, aizonyora nezveAfrica neMiddle East. Chim, uyo aitaura mitauro yakasiyana-siyana yokuEurope, aizoshanda kuEurope. Cartier-Bresson yaizogoverwa kuIndia neChina. Vandivert, uyo akanga asiyawo Life, aizoshanda muAmerica, uye Capa aizoshanda kupi nokupi kwaiva nebasa. Maria Eisner akatarisira hofisi yeParis uye Rita Vandivert, mudzimai waVandivert, akatarisira hofisi yeNew York ndokuva purezidhendi wokutanga waMagnum.  Cartier-Bresson akawana kuzivikanwa kwenyika yose nokuda kwokufukidzwa kwake kwokuvigwa kwaGandhi muIndia muna 1948 uye chikamu chokupedzisira cheHondo Yenyika yeChina muna 1949. Akafukidza mwedzi mitanhatu yokupedzisira yehurumende yeKuomintang nemwedzi mitanhatu yokutanga yeMaoist People's Republic. Akapfurawo mifananidzo yevakuru vakuru vokupedzisira veumambo vakanga vachiri vapenyu muBeijing, sezvo guta racho rakanga riri kusunungurwa nemakomonisiti. MuShanghai, aigara achishanda mukambani yemutori wenhau wemifananidzo Sam Tata, uyo Cartier-Bresson akange amboshamwaridzana naye muBombay. Achibva kuChina, akaenda kuDutch East Indies (Indonesia), kwaakanyora nezvokusununguka kweNetherlands. Muna 1950, Cartier-Bresson akanga aenda kuSouth India. Akanga ashanyira Tiruvannamalai, taundi riri mudunhu reIndia reTamil Nadu uye akatora mifananidzo yenguva dzokupedzisira dzaRamana Maharishi, Sri Ramana Ashram nenzvimbo dzakapoteredza. Mazuva mashomanene gare gare iye akashanyirawo ndokutora mifananidzo yaSri Aurobindo, Amai naSri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.  Basa raMagnum raiva roku"ona kurova" kwenguva uye mamwe emabasa aro okutanga akanga ari Vanhu Vanorarama Kwose Kwose, Vechiduku Venyika, Vakadzi Venyika uye Chizvarwa chevana. Magnum yakanangana nokushandisa mifananidzo mubasa revanhu, uye yakapa mifananidzo inoshamisa, yaionekwa nevakawanda.  Nguva Inokosha  1952 US edition yeCartier-Bresson's 1952 bhuku The Decisive Moment (Mifananidzo à la sauvette).  Mufananidzo waAlberto Giacometti naCartier-Bresson Muna 1952, Cartier-Bresson akabudisa bhuku rake rinonzi Images à la sauvette, iro reChirungu rakanga rine musoro unoti The Decisive Moment, kunyange zvazvo zita rechiFrench rinoshandura chaizvoizvo se "mifananidzo iri pachivande" kana kuti "mifananidzo yakakurumidza kutorwa", Images à la sauvette yaisanganisira portfolio ye 126 yemifananidzo yake kubva kuEast uye West. Kavha yebhuku racho yakadhirowewa naHenri Matisse. Nokuda kweshoko rake rouzivi rine mashoko 4.500, Cartier-Bresson akatora rugwaro rwake runokosha rwakabva kuna Cardinal de Retz womuzana ramakore rechi17, "Il n'y a rien dans ce monde qui n'ait un moment décisif" ("Hakuna chinhu chiri munyika ino chisina nguva inokosha"). Cartier-Bresson akashandisa ikoku kumutoo wake wemifananidzo. Akati: "Photographier: c'est dans un même instant et en une fraction de seconde reconnaître un fait et l'organisation rigoureuse de formes perçues visuellement qui expriment et signifient ce fait" ("Kwandiri, kutora mifananidzo ndiko kuziva panguva imwe chete, muchikamu chechipiri, kukosha kwechiitiko pamwe chete nesangano rakanyatsojeka rezvimiro zvinopa chiitiko ichocho chirevo chayo chaicho").  Mazita ose ari maviri akabva kuna Tériade, muparidzi wechiFrench akaberekerwa kuGreece uyo Cartier-Bresson aiyemura. Akapa bhuku racho zita raro rechiFrench, Images à la Sauvette, rinoshandurwa zvisizvo kuti "mifananidzo iri kutiza" kana kuti "mifananidzo yakabiwa". Dick Simon weSimon & Schuster akauya nomusoro wechiNgezi unoti The Decisive Moment. Margot Shore, mukuru weMagnum muParis, akashandurira mashoko okutanga aCartier-Bresson echiFrench muChirungu.  "Kutora mifananidzo hakuna kufanana nokudhirowa", Cartier-Bresson akaudza Washington Post muna 1957. "Pane chidimbu chechipiri chokusika paunenge uchitora mufananidzo. Ziso rako rinofanira kuona murongedzero kana kuti kutaura uko upenyu humene hunokupa, uye unofanira kuziva nechomumwoyo nguva yokudzvanya kamera. Iyoyo ndiyo nguva apo mutori wemifananidzo anogadzira", akadaro. "Oop! Nguva yacho! Kana ukangozvitadza, zvinobva zvanyangarika zvachose".  Mufananidzo uri muRue Mouffetard, muParis, wakatorwa muna 1954, kubvira ipapo wave uri muenzaniso wakakurumbira wokukwanisa kwaCartier-Bresson kutora nguva inokosha. Akaita kuratidzira kwake kwokutanga muFrance paPavillon de Marsan muna 1955.
Henri Cartier-Bresson mutori wemifananidzo wechiFrench kubva pakutanga kwezana ramakore rechi20. Iye anozivikanwa nokuda kwemifananidzo yake yemugwagwa uye akanga ane mukurumbira zvikuru paaishanda nesangano reMagnum raakavamba. Iye akawana zivikanwo yamarudzi ose nokuda kwokufukidza kwake mariro aGhandi. Gare gare, bhuku rake rinonzi "decisive moment", rinobata nzira yake yokutora mifananidzo: kubata nguva sezvazvinoitika, mumigwagwa.