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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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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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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