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It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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
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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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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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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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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
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The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
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In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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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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Of course it's all luck.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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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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I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
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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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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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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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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
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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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