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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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Of course it's all luck.
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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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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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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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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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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.
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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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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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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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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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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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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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