documentary - decisive moment

The term 'Decisive moment' came around from the French photographer 'Henri Cartier Bresson' who was considered a master of candid photography, he was one of the first to develop street photography and the 'decisive moment' is what he viewed photography as being. In David Bates' reading on storytelling he also speaks of a German critic named Gotthold Lessing who has developed the term of a 'Pregnant moment' where the past present and future can be depicted from a single glance by the viewer whilst also having their own interpretation on the moment. An example of this is showing aspects of politics and hidden messages whether they are intended or not to make up a good documentary photograph. This is one of the photos used in Bates' reading taken by Henri Cartier Bresson himself it shows one of many paintings of dutch governors being removed from the governors residence. This to me represents freedom and how they have achieved independence...