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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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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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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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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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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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In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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