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
photography thinking done
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
photography taken dark
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
photography taken light
And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it.
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.
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 views photographer
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
photography cameras moments
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
kissing gun machines
The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.
photography reality want
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
photography expression organization
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
photography art creativity
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.
photography heart eye
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
photography believe discovery
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.
photography skins trying
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.