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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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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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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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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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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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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As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
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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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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
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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 me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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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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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.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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