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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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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

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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.

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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

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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.

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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Photographer

Born: August 22nd, 1908

Died: August 3rd, 2004

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