Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bressonwas a French humanist photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop street photography, and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment, a term adopted as the title for his first major book. His work has influenced many photographers...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth22 August 1908
CountryFrance
photography leica great-photography
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
photography memories shooting
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.
responsibility people judgement
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.
photography leica photograph
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
photography memes
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
photography cutting reality
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?
photography real essence
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.
photographer strollers
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
photography vanishing photographer
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing...
memories taken important
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
mean expression simplicity
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
thinking littles professors
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)
photography running flow
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
photography painting concerned
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.