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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French
August 22, 1908
Photographer
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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