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.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.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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.
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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Fotógrafo francés
1908-2004
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