“Photography is not documentation but intuition, a poetic experience. It’s drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, then sniff, sniff, sniff- being sensitive to coincidence. You can’t go looking for it: you can’t want it or you won’t get it. First you must lose yourself. Then it happens.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Yes, surely one of the most famous images in the history of photography and for good reason. However the many times one looks at this image, its composition is still staggering. How did Henri know in that fraction of a second that the reflection of the man jumping would be in complete harmony with the figure jumping in the poster opposite? A miracle or just his innate genius? I think the latter because he created so many astounding images in his 95 years. You can get lucky once. But not……
