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Kertész, André
Kertész, André (1894–1985) Hungarian-US photographer. He was one of the first to use a compact Leica camera. While in France, Kertész worked as a photo-journalist as well as taking portraits of artist-friends such as Mondrian and Colette. In 1936 he moved to the USA, where he worked for magazines such as
Vogue and
Harper's Bazaar. Kertész was a major influence on Robert
Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 1/11/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...director to emerge since 1960, Robert Bresson, who died December 18, distilled...know. -J.HOBERMAN In 1972 Robert Bresson, responding to my recently published...viewer. For the last 15 years Robert Bresson has seemed like God himself...
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ROBERT BRESSON: 1901-1999.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 4/1/2000; 700+ words
; ON DECEMBER 22, 1999, ROBERT BRESSON, THE DIRECTOR OF THIRTEEN LAPIDARY...PRINA ASSESS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BRESSON'S ART IN THEIR OWN LIVES AND...FRIEND INVITED ME TO a screening of Robert Bresson's The Devil, Probably, on...
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Robert Bresson: a Spiritual Style in Film.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 7/26/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...counsel and looked again at some of Robert Bresson's 14 feature films made in France...as Cunneen is quick to note, Bresson's work lends itself neither to...comparison to other filmmakers. Bresson is unique. He is, however, a...
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Control and redemption: the austere cinema of Robert Bresson.
Magazine article from: Take One; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...undertaken by Cinematheque Ontario. Robert Bresson, now in his early 90s, is described...cinema. Jean-Luc Godard says, "Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky...Ontario for The Bresson Project, is Robert Bresson, a 600-page collection of essays...
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Connecting faith and film: film director Robert Bresson's spare, reflective movies reveal moments of grace in human life.(Profile)(Biography)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 11/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; French film director Robert Bresson had no interest in producing pious...If he were alive to hear of it, Bresson would probably reject the title of...Catholic novelist." Nevertheless, Bresson was probably the most distinguished...
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Film: How Robert Bresson saved cinema - and a condemned man David Thomson's TOP TEN FILMS: 5 `A Man Escaped', Robert Bresson, 1956
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/30/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and the resurrectionary grace of Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped, which is not...uncertainty? To which, of course, Bresson might respond - then why do even...you what happens? One bonus in Bresson's assurance is that this is a...
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CINE: El estilo es el hombre: Robert Bresson (1907-1999).(director de películas)(TT: Movies: the style is the man: Robert Bresson (1907-1999).)(TA: movie director)
Magazine article from: Letras Libres; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...como elogio o como ataque, que Robert Bresson era un jansenista rigurosamente...predestinacin y de gracia espiritual. Bresson respondi claramente que si la comparacin...pensamos que lo hace en lo formal. En Bresson no hay una moral sino ms bien una...
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APPRECIATION / Robert Bresson -- A Pure Vision of Film / For French master, rigor yielded truth .(DAILY DATEBOOK)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 12/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; The films of Robert Bresson were not filmed novels or filmed stage...special effects. They were pure cinema. Bresson was the rigorous, ascetic master of...he made his first when he was 33 -- Bresson worked slowly but methodically. His...
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Divine skepticism: the films of Robert Bresson.(Special Feature)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...since cinema's earliest days, Robert Bresson offers arguably the most profound...career of more than forty years, Bresson maintained a consistent engagement...tension throughout all his films. Bresson never deviates from one central...
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Filmmaker's realism suggested the spiritual.(Robert Bresson)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/25/2000; ; 700+ words
; The recent death of Robert Bresson, the French movie director best known...suggest the presence of the sacred. Bresson died Dec. 18, 1999. Born in 1901...Germans in 1940 and '41. In 1943, Bresson directed his first full-length film...
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Robert Bresson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Bresson , 1901-99, French film director and...made during the course of 40 years. Bresson attempted to avoid the theatrical, preferring...1983). Bibliography: See The Films of Robert Bresson (ed. by I. Cameron, 1970).
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Bresson, Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
BRESSON, Robert Nationality: French. Born: Bromont...matographe (Paris), July/August 1977. "Robert Bresson, Possibly," interview with Paul Schrader...Indianapolis, Indiana, 1968. The Films of Robert Bresson , by five reviewers, New York, 1969...
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Robert Capa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...photographic agency. In a sense Robert Capa invented himself. The...American" photographer named Robert Capa than she could for the...Thus the internationally known Robert Capa was born. Capa and Taro...Agency were Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour ("Chim...
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Un Condamné à Mort S'Est Échappé
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Will) France, 1956 Director: Robert Bresson Production: SNE Gaumont/NEF...Poir é ; screenplay: Robert Bresson, from the account by Andr...Publications Books: The Films of Robert Bresson , New York, 1969. Cameron...
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Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Boulogne) France, 1945 Director: Robert Bresson Production: Films Raoul Ploquin...Lavell é e; screenplay: Robert Bresson; dialogue: Jean Cocteau, from...1945. Publications Script: Bresson, Robert, and Jean Cocteau, Les Dames...
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