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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Film Director
Journalist
Painter
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Henri Cartier Bresson
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This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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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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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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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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They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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 only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.
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