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 heart eye
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
photography details littles
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
photography eye soul
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
photography way originality
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
photography book intuition
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
photography art creativity
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
photography eye moments
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
photography forever missing
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
photography sharpness bourgeois
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
photography self intuition
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.
photography giving leica
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
photography realizing moments
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
world
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
photography photographer art-photography
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.