Henri Cartier Bresson Quotes

• In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

  Burton Silverman

  Taken, Museums, People

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

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photograph, Cartier, Burned

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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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 was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.

  William Eggleston

  Art, Magazines, Firsts

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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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 multiple elements line up within the frame.

  Nick Zinner

  Fans, Elements, Lines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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 of high visual drama, is now possible to achieve at any time. One's photographs, years later, may be retroactively rephotographed by repositioning the photographer or the subject of the photograph, or by adding elements that were never there before but now are made to exist concurrently in a newly elastic sense of space and time.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Drama, Years

  Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”

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• Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Dark, People, Filters

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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