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 facts common
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
photography moments eternity
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
photographer strollers
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
eye men watches
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
photography echoes people
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
photography memories shooting
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
photography accepted should
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
photography real essence
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
photography details world
In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
photography cutting reality
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?
photography running flow
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
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.