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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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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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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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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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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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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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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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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