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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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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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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
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In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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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 a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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