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...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
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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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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This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
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In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.
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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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Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
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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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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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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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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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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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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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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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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
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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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