Henri cartier bresson Quotes

6 quotes from 5 authors

If you’ve wondered why the ‘decisive moment’ haunts photographers, these six voices give a quick pulse on Cartier‑Bresson’s legacy. They note his disdain for glossy magazine work, his love of candid drama, and the technical quirks that spark debate—see photojournalism and visual storytelling for more.

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Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Joel Sternfeld

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Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight'…

Joel Sternfeld

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In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…

Burton Silverman

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I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having…

Nick Zinner

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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there…

William Eggleston

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The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point…

Fred Ritchin

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