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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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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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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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