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We 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. We cannot develop and print a memory.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

We 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. We cannot develop and print a memory.

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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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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.

Tags: art, creative, moment, long

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Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s, he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting to paint.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Tags: art, perseverance, photography

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Tags: art, me, photography, event

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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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.

Tags: existence, photography, photojournalism

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Tags: artist, camera, photography

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Tags: eye, photograph, photography, sight

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

Tags: photography

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Tags: photography