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Article: TELEVISION
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 23, 1994
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Omnibus (BBC 2) began as if it were an unusually lenient version
of Just a Minute: "William Feaver, Art Critic, your subject is the
photographer Henri Cartier- Bresson - take as long as you want and
don't worry about hesitations." What Feaver said was actually
interesting - a nice reading of the famous image of a man leaping
across a puddle, a brisk exposition of Cartier-Bresson's theory of
"the decisive moment", some good examples of how the photographer
suffered at the hands of clumsy editors - but there was an odd,
unshakeable feeling as he talked that you hadn't yet arrived.
When Feaver mentioned the film that was to follow, by the artist
Sarah Moon, you knew for certain that you were ...