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 earth vanishing
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
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It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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Of course it's all luck.
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As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
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I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.
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Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
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The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
world
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
eye vision looks
One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
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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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I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.
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It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept