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
thinking done photograph
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.
photography details world
In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
space joy waiting
I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!
photography intuition documentaries
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
world scar brushes
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
country travel long
Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.
photography stories shooting
Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.
eye men watches
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
photography accepted should
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
eye heart axes
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis
atmosphere humans human-beings
We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being
thinking mind culture
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.
photography independent light
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.
photography facts common
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.