"Why do photographers start giving numbers to their……" — Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money."
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too…
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
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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…
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Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that…
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin…
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