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Photography appears to be an easy activity in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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Of course it's all luck.
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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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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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Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
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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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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
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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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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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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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