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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Film Director
Journalist
Painter
Photographer
Photojournalist
Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier- Bresson
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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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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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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
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As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
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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 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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Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
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A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
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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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Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
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Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.
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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 an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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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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Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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Give me inspiration over information.
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