The Decisive Moment

Japanese: 《The Decisive Moment》(英語表記)TheDecisiveMoment
The Decisive Moment

...He also worked on film from 1935 to 1939 under Paul Strand and Jean Renoir, and served in the French army as a film photographer during World War II, where he was captured by the Germans. The photobook that made his name immortal, The Decisive Moment (published in 1952, English title: The Decisive Moment, French title: Image à la sauvette (Secretly Taken Image)), is a compilation of the photographs taken during this period (1932-52). He considered his small camera (Leica) an "extension of his own eye," and his photographs were not created by distorting or directing things to suit his own images. ...

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Japanese:

…また1935‐39年にはポール・ストランドやジャン・ルノアールらのもとで映画の仕事にも携わり,第2次大戦ではフランス軍の映画写真班として従軍し,ドイツ軍に捕らえられた。彼の名を不朽のものにした写真集《決定的瞬間》(1952年刊,英語題名《The Decisive Moment》,フランス語題名《Image à la sauvette(こっそりと撮られた映像)》)は,この時期(1932‐52)の写真を集大成したものである。小型カメラ(ライカ)を〈自分の眼の延長〉と考える彼の写真は,ものごとを変型したり演出したりして,自分のイメージにひきよせてつくられていない。…

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