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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
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
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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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Give me inspiration over information.
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One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
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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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In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
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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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Photography appears to be an easy activity in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
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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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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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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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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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He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
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It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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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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