photojornalism part 1

The desisive moment is when capturing an impage in a split second. One of the most famous disisive moment photographs is of the man jumping over the puddle. It is famous because of the way the man is jumping into the unknown, also the broken hoop was a big deal then as wheels were the first man made object and in this photograph it was broken lying on the floor. the whole photo was not planed which is what makes it so famous because it truely is a disisive moment.

 
Henri carter-bresson is known as the godfather of the disisve moment and is one of the leading people in the world of photojouralism. He is the photographer that took the photo of the man jumping over the puddle.
The leica camera was the first camera to have a quick shutter spead which meant that photographer could catch things right at the moment, whereas before it was impossible for people to do that as it could take at least 10 minutes to take a photograph. An example of this is the man having his shoe ploished, other people were around him but because of the camera you could not see these people in the photograph. Also the leica camera was very known for where the view-finder was on the camera, most have the veiw-finder in the middle so that the camera covered you face and you could not see anything aprt form through the veiw-finder. On the leica camera it was on the left hand side which meant people could see the world around them and also through the view-finder.