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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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In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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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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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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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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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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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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