The Art of Seeing; 2; The Decisive Moment

- Transcript
on the beginning of time man has been trying to capture to freeze on a flat surface the moments that mattered to him from the simplest events to the most ethical today with a camera such events can be seized stopped in time and space frozen forever mr mintz plasse as decisive kearns tosses acknowledged to be one of the great photographers of our time today he discusses the moment the welding together of reality so that it expresses form and human contact and the photographer himself the last vote
on the talk about the play and they showed you how you can bring a maudlin to display the show on the discipline and hard to come to this does but there's more to find him just this election if you make a date they have to set the pace is really to have to say that and you hope you date is going to be on time and photography he's also disagreeing next to this because they have to be on time it means every situation has a climactic moment which you often that song called this moment the decisive it is a photographic moment and it is a new one
isn't as an adult moment because it is done by an instant never before the court to be remember a moment that could only get them which anthony comstock a tv addict you can freeze the situation with his camera and come to affect but this fact in order to move those state has to be heightened that imagination it is a new moment but the ideal of the mormon faith based on at times when even placed on it meant files in these situations which were selling in the comment is more than most dramatic moment the moment which brought out
whatever he wanted to see what the situation was i remember the event of the olympic games that morning one was watching the pesky s you could feed but that is an instinct appetite for this moment and they had to smile because whenever these skaters cain could use them active moment was only one foot on the politically on the act but at the same time it was like a mass execution but they're leaving us to wait because they compost poets this moment and if you go to about a human or to be let the small but these are obviously this is like with a bouncer who jumps into the air and then comes one moment where he's forces fighting the gutted
the npr ed actually it's an instinct for these kind of morbid right to reconstruct his moment before the cameras was another report that it was before you went to the likely event of ice skating and even he reconstructed moments which almost look like for pickups and then they painted it they came back with an the difficult one moment that many many moments of the vehicle struck emily did the paper they didn't but the city it put it or to get it here this moment here that moment in order to get them made the picture in photography you left to participate in order to get your
pictures new baby in order types if his company which was not this feeling that about the city but it was a different participation because it was much more before often depictions couple of very famous wolf when he went to spain he was really not the city it was a common with him he could have been killed by the same court which given name was next to him and it was on in the cockpit it was a very dramatic moment he was not concerned so much with a composition but he wanted to say i was there i was in it but it wasn't only in that he was beyond it does send it but he added it does send that that and there you have to be beyond he was not concerned his composition that stage no current came because a situation for a certain john mccain and in every
situation you look for the moment what is the mormon kids but they get desire to put together the past and for the future of thing that the president thursday famous picture a couple with the cockpit so when it's called to corroborate the situation from that composition that people kept their distance because they despise the moment the policeman is close to that woman who got that woman is isolated but we have sympathy with the moment within this danger to even predicts that tried to sort of lone actor seth the moment made a pitch and republicans they
caught that he is a convert he does nothing as a homeowner within thirty six exposures of an icon richard carpenter six years later conquered your candidate from one to thirty six and confronts actor the movement of a photographer the review went how we approach to subjects and how i was confronted with it realized it comes from deep at the exact moment the decisive and then the judge photographers we mostly don't look at this elected because we looked at the competitions and they are embracing the senate almost like in a sketchbook situations are changing that ethos and you watch the situation is that if they for instance watch a situation i probably saw when he went to china you can
see how beautifully executed to come to this but he would've called a decisive moment first nothing but like heroes and the pitching in it which attracted his attention the next big short it shows much much only pay but long lines have a lot more second more adhesive on it and what i think is a line and esthetic tension between the jumping the bridge and the shapes and the pigeon is this setting and whenever he looks at pictures if they do that that means in terms of the mom and detest them if they got into the work together if release everything on the prius and misguided just of emotion of what the picture palaces from and content become
won't think to issue well it is the bending overhead one step to the side makes for the difference in a picture of you we see him first there was a man moving in on the right so he didn't like it but more coordinated but stayed on the left side that woman know scott he always knows what he gets and then in the next picture it and i think the simple question everything is on its face and you couldn't cut anything away without despite that order and even the peak is going into the ornamentation is almost like the effects the girls above to carry
on their heads let's look at some other pictures of the speech a deacon yes he was on the guard but not god can be so clever now to find work he would follow in his moment much all this end it's going to be legal and if we go down and we find suddenly they can buy them and i freeze and again the bacon on the legacy of the man and if they do again watch other in libya and how it goes out into the soldier and how the hand goes right into the last line of the head and
everything he does by cathy which is really a masterpiece of these extensions you've seen pictures of war but it exposed completely different that was again if they if you don't go with so jealous foti sure that life goes on and that even could achieve and have joy enclave within the violence and timing pots and life we eat them any race expressing a wall and when a bishop who went to indochina watch them at selected the small screen to a chinese woman up passing across the not only passing by selecting his moment they
make a cross and each woman is a cross and give a fascinating because it's because of that farther south in indochina war and he and i can always picture show the joy goes on it distorts an unfortunate people go home from work and the balance on taxes and a way you can see how their hands on including the action in the because of the highways you ready for a perspective in that they ever think it relates to everything orange snow ski jump are there couldn't be a better chosen moment for these things were walking in the snow and then suddenly we see are everything fits together and we see the horror picture
it isn't always one picture which then system sometimes the situations where you have to find this body in many many bigots not remember when i went to police was a little church it denotes which is an island and i came into it but few x event there was an of the city that was tension in the church and i saw a woman lying on the floor i couldn't understand the week of the woman was like at times then afterwards ahead because he said she sees a vision she was powerless everybody knew that and suddenly for the very first time she moved her hand up to point out to the vision she's going to see what's the
expiration of the woman who was standing and she dives to see that not everybody has realized that he has been he had a tremendous history started regarding the church everything was happening i can forgive me i couldn't do what i could do is select the moment and after the news that was so well that what it was lined up and the people that i need to see the vision to and you can see it affecting in their faces mr xian them is what they see something some door some warned that even the two chilled time getting caught then afterwards to the talking to each other did you see and it looked like this and some takes in plants if it's
today or maybe there's a sick was hoping that it might have been doing the history was over gestures which they live there's a picture that was davidson which is called the russian team which gives us such a beautiful accent that of a gesture it's that gesture which brings together the past and the future here more the us you of course you can show a washerwoman washing but that gesture says that while she was watched her hair was hanging down and all she's hired in june eighth and she does these typical russian woman gestures with a bag overhead because the hen somewhat he wears them out i would call this a
poetic moment it doesn't tell you an important skill but it didn't really is a fee for some that may be in all this picture of the pain when the days the naked women later the mountains only brought together the gesture of pain and the clouds foremost being carried by then and then the clouds carry the mountains and then when you see the horror picture unique on slate this gesture is playing dr this be but it is known as the story reaches for the dismal this point the good can be that humans and it is a year ago these pictures every show you here
which we are so strongly they're human i know this is the next one the second day intuition the palestinians
but in the political reaction finally be ok while to get to a source that they happen but if i like twice this one this picture of them is that when i was a cowboy can try reports if you look at that picture you think that they are the prize which is an art of blitz philip morris lives and the last of which makes the picture is not quite two and more speed is made by my leg and if you take the lake out there is please go and if you put it in again then you see how the neck and these are so endearing over muscle and the end of the kind of rich findlay throw out the payday
and another moment as thought they got it helps that animate men on the bicycle and it is almost as if the men would move down the bicycle that means the staircase is just moaning and put it into a real difference and issue that is that they look for something which they don't really know it's going to happen as i said there's an instinct for it for instance you have just to pigeons in the park nasa engineers moving in and that to bijan the fighting for one call and it comes almost to a picture a game
on beaches moving out but it still isn't the picture and then suddenly as if you would have waited for this moment happens here we are two patients in the same coin and ineffective and so it makes the holy mountain without no soma you just use it and i would like to start first with some more pictures which are nato and china and then with a few pictures of very famous very rich in new york on
teenagers those chinese he's lance watch out because i think of a bicycle well as we're a team in that i ate in
our and it becomes a value in this era in it's a masterpiece of german and was the more moving and static objects or sick to get hurt and then they just that was davidson to get up the agents in our
my power rather than settle our little boy it's almost like its own costs are so much tennis is because there's no these leaders the
boys are fixed distance to find a case in santa marta who they feel would cave we know it lets a menace or destroyed we had seen many moments at a map that mormons and enjoy the moments where the heat few muslims they have five to define what are the main thing is that the decisive moment and phrases in action and two
moments become one but sometimes the moment freeze is too much and takes away the beauty of speed and becomes too static sometimes human body all things which are not in one ward but like between wolves like for instance dc comics which are flying against the regime yeah you get a feeling and this is expected this morning to retire that you find in our next or navajo and stuart goodbye thank you and
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- Series
- The Art of Seeing
- Episode Number
- 2
- Episode
- The Decisive Moment
- Producing Organization
- WNDT (Television station : Newark, N.J.)
- Contributing Organization
- Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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- cpb-aacip/75-9351ch08
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- ARSG
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- Description
- Episode Description
- In this second program in the series, Ernst Haas is concerned with the problem which all photographers face at one time or another, particularly those concerned with the photographing of action, which is the ability to capture the precisely right moment. Haas gets into this subject via a short recap of program one. He then goes on into the work of such photographers as Cartier-Bresson, elaborating on the ways in which the photographer's keen observation enables him to record of freeze one single moment, or an entire series from which the ideal moment may later be chosen. Haas concludes with the point that much may be learned about a photographer's point of view through a study of his chosen moment. Credits: Pictures from Magnum Photo Inc. by Werner Bishop; Henri Cartier-Bresson; Robert Capa; Bruce Davidson; Elliott Erwitt; Ernst Haas. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Episode Description
- While the attempt to freeze a memorable moment is as old as art, the mechanical ability to freeze a fraction of a second of reality has only become possible within recent years. In this program, Ernst Haas describes and illustrates the various kinds of moments the photographer seeks to record. There are the obvious moments such as those in sports to which everyone reacts. But the artist-photographer takes many frozen moments and chooses the decisive one, where form and content combine to transcend the mere recording of the immediate event to function as an anchor between past and future. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- The opening narration of the first episode sets the theme for this series: We use our eyes, for the most part, merely to get through life as if it were an unfamiliar room to get from one end of living to another without stumbling over the furniture of the world itself on the way. But there is another way a sharper way of seeingIf we are aware, if we really see, there can be joy and wonder in the most commonplace sight. Is it the way the skilled photographer sees. In each of these four episodes, Ernst Haas uses photographs (his own and those of other major photographers), film, and works of art to show perception is a neglected art but an improvable part of living. Ernst Haas is acknowledged as one of todays leading photographers. According to Edward Steichen he has made some of the great contributions to photography. Mr. Haas, who now makes his home in New York, was born in Vienna in 1922. His formal education was originally directed toward medicine, but conditions in Europe forced him to abandon any thought of a career in that field. He turned to philosophy and painting, and finally to photography. Of himself and his work, he says this: Disinterested in scientific objectivity, I want to transform reality with a poetic conception by relating the unrelated into a vision 00 forcing the viewer to feel what I felt as well as to think what I thought. I believe photography can be an art and I want to give everything to help achieve it. There is only you and your camera the limitations of your photography are in yourself, for what we see is only what we are. Mr. Haas was voted one of the worlds ten greatest photographers in an international poll conducted by Popular Photography magazine among educators, critics, editors, and art directors. He has received numerous awards for his color photography, and his pictures have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where examples of his work are in the permanent collections. A book on his studies of nature in close up is scheduled for publication by Macmillan this year. The 4 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded in black and white on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Description
- In this second program in the series, Ernst Haas is concerned with the problem which all photographers face at one time or another, particularly those concerned with the photographing of action, which is the ability to capture the precisely right moment. Haas gets into this subject via a short recap of program one. He then goes on into the work of such photographers as Cartier-Bresson, elaborating on the ways in which the photographer's keen observation enables him to record of freeze one single moment, or an entire series from which the ideal moment may later be chosen. Haas concludes with the point that much may be learned about a photographer's point of view through a study of his chosen moment.
- Broadcast Date
- 1963-00-00
- Created Date
- 1962-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:34
- Credits
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Associate Producer: Weiler, Berenice
Director: Browning, Kirk
Executive Producer: Benjamin, James
Host: Haas, Ernst
Lighting Director: Manning, Fred
Producer: Altman, William M.
Producing Organization: WNDT (Television station : Newark, N.J.)
Production Assistant: Seaton, Shirley
Set Designer: Riggs, Otis
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- Chicago: “The Art of Seeing; 2; The Decisive Moment,” 1963-00-00, Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 4, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-9351ch08.
- MLA: “The Art of Seeing; 2; The Decisive Moment.” 1963-00-00. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 4, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-9351ch08>.
- APA: The Art of Seeing; 2; The Decisive Moment. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-9351ch08