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Vote: | Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. |
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Vote: | He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment. |
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Vote: | In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. |
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Vote: | Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3 2004) was a French photographer. He was commonly considered the undisputed master of candid photography using the small-format rangefinder camera.
Considered by most to be the father of photojournalism, Cartier-Bresson exclusively used Leica 35 mm rangefinder cameras equipped with normal 50mm lenses or occasionally a telephoto for landscapes. Along with Robert Capa and other photographers, Cartier-Bresson founded Magnum Photos, the first photographic cooperative, in 1947.
Biography Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, of prosperous middle-class parents. His interest in photography started at a very early age. As a boy, Cartier-Bresson owned a Box Brownie, which he used for taking holiday snapshots. Later, he experimented with a 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" view camera. Cartier-Bresson's early training in art (for two years, he studied painting in a Paris studio) helped develop a subtle and sensitive eye for composition. This was seen as one of Cartier-Bresson's greatest assets as a photographer.
In 1931, at the age of 22, Cartier-Bresson went to the West African bush as a hunter. After a year, he returned to France after catching blackwater fever. During the convalescence, he first truly discovered photography. He later recalled how he "prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to 'trap' life, to preserve life in the act of living."
When World War II broke out, Cartier-Bresson briefly served in the French Army. During the Battle of France, he was captured by the Germans. After two unsuccessful tries, he escaped from a prisoners of war camp, and worked with the French Resistance until the war's end.
When he was believed dead in 1946, the Museum of Modern Art in New York organised a posthumous exposition.
In 1947, Cartier-Bresson helped form the Magnum photo agency. Assignments for major magazines took him across Europe and the United States, to India, Russia and China. Many books of his photographs were published in the 50s and 60s; the most famous was The Decisive Moment (1952). In The Decisive Moment, Cartier-Bresson said that the decisive moment is
A major milestone in his career was a massive, 400-print retrospective exhibition, which toured the United States in 1960. He was the winner of the 1982 Hasselblad Award
Cartier-Bresson died in Céreste (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France) on August 3, 2004 at the age of 95.
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