Henri Cartier Bresson Quotes

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Henri cartier bresson quotes A quote by the world-renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. With the eye that is closed one looks within with the eye that is open one looks without. To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression.

Inspired Eye is Olivier Duong Don Springer. We cannot develop and print a memory. Cartier-Bresson says he cannot take portraits of actors because they pose.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. The camera can be a machine gun a warm kiss a sketchbook. For me the camera is a sketch book an instrument of intuition and spontaneity the master of the instant which in visual terms questions and decides simultaneously.

All images to their respective owners. - Henri Cartier-Bresson The Camera - LIFE Library of Photography Page. Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood.

French - Photographer August 22 1908 - August 3 2004. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

The creative act last 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 Accented with a vintage camera. It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera they are made with the eye heart and head. And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light either if only out of respect for the actual light even when there isnt any of it.