Midjourney images are super-fun.

I’m not sure I understand your question about romanticizing Cartier Bresson. . .I think some time definition can take away the magic of art. He was not groundbreaking because he was a pioneer “street photographer,” or because of what camera he used “Leica” or the kind film he shot. He was groundbreaking because of the je ne sais quoi combined with the decisive moment and the guts to put it out in the world so that we could look at it and feel something powerful!

I showed his picture of the boy with the wine bottles to some friends today. They didn’t get it. It was a black and white photo on a 5 1/2 inch phone screen to people that has been overstimulated and desensitized.

As a photographer I look at the picture and see one of the greatest images ever taken, the pride on the boy’s face, the composition, the depth of field - I feel something powerful when I look at that image. . .it was part of my story in art. But how can I explain all that at a dinner party?

Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Ansel Adams will never exist again in the same groundbreaking way now that literally anything is possible. Today they wouldn’t even be noteworthy, but in their time and context they were treasures.