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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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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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