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 thinking people
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
photography important photographer
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
trying photographer economist
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.
photography moments eternity
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
book mean expression
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.
fishing water tiptoes
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.
photography animal prey
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
eye looks
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
photography together mixtures
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
world doe moments
There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
long wonderful
It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.
photography taken force
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
photography hunters shooting
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
photography today spontaneity
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.