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Objective: Look at a Henri Cartier-Bresson photograph and discuss why you think the decisive moment has added to the picture's quality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

In looking at this picture, you could say that the subjects that are placed within heavily influence the backdrop. If you were to take away the subjects, it would simply be a landscape of what appears to be a grave yard int he background with a small puddle of flood in the front. While it would hold a characterized emotion, I believe the picture would like slightly lacking. This moment in particular is captured very uniquely. It is the seconds when the subject is leaping from his stance on what looks like hastily strewn together planks of wood and into the water. Their feet are not touching the water yet, so no ripples have yet appeared from where they will fall. Rather, it is the anticipation of what we know will come.