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
moving eye perspective
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail. But he composes a picture in very nearly the same amount of time it takes to click the shutter, at the speed of a reflex action.
art heart eye
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
eye men watches
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
eye heart axes
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis
eye looks
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
photography heart eye
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
photography eye essence
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
photography eye expression
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
photography eye expression
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
eye vision looks
One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
photography eye moments
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
photography eye soul
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
photography heart eye
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
cannot deal develop earth memory vanished
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.