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
world scar brushes
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
photography leica photograph
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
photography painting concerned
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
space joy waiting
I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!
atmosphere humans human-beings
We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being
photography organization facts
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
photography independent light
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.
trying photographer economist
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
photography leica great-photography
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
responsibility people judgement
As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
photography distance waiting
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
humanity faces world
Human faces are such a world!
attitude order giving
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
fishing water tiptoes
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.