Article: Life in motion: freeze or blur? How to choose the decisive moment.(photocritique)

A photograph describes the present, which immediately becomes the past. It stops time in its tracks, taking an instant out of its context and either freezing it or blurring it to make a point and communicate an idea.

Photographers use this time option in various ways. They choose which moment to lift out of its context and capture as a photograph. They may select a fast shutter speed to stop action, or a slow one to blur it. Photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson have elevated the seizure of time into an art form by arranging the flow of shapes, forms and patterns within the frame to express meaning as a "decisive moment."

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