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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
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A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
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...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
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The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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