http://tedbarron.com/BWF-June-2009/23-Henri-Cartier-Bresson.mp3 (link)
Henri Cartier Bresson Speaks Notes
- A balance between the world inside us and the world outside us.
- The inseparability of form and content.
- A question of chance, but you have to pick the the moment, a decisive moment.
- You have to work always for yourself, the magazines put you in contact with events, and you have the chance to speak to a large audience.
- The first impression has to be very fresh, just like when you see someone’s face for the first time.
- You have to live, you have to know people, you have to establish human relations, you have to be on the same level as people, you have to be warm, you have to like people, you mustn’t be cruel, you musn’t be hard, because it bounces back on you.
- Technique is not a thing in the abstract.
- It is a question that sometime people put, ‘which is your favourite picture?’ And I must say the important picture is the next one that you’re going to take. We are not curators of our work. It is important to think about the next subject.
- Photography is a way of living. To me my camera is an extension of my eye, I keep it all the time with me. But everything depends on how we live, what we like, our attitude towards live. What we are in fact.
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