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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.
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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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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.
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Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.
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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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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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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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