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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
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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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
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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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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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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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Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
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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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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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