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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.
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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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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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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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
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If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.
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It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
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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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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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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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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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