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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Film Director
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Henri Cartier Bresson
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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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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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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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