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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
Photographer
Photojournalist
Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier- Bresson
Henry Cartier-Bresson
Bresson
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Photography
Interest
Nothing
Life
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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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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
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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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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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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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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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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