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
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes about
silence portraits
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
photography luck courses
Of course it's all luck.
photography reality joy
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.
photography thinking secret
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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.
photograph
Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
photography intuition stage
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
photographer elegance enjoy
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
photography heart mean
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.
photography shapes rhythm
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
photography forever life-is
Life is once. Forever.
photography hunters next
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.
eternity photograph instant
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
photography balance elements
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.