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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
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Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
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The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Born:
August 22, 1908
Died:
August 3, 2004
(aged 95)
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