num_pages: 95
description: Manufactured or staged photography does not interest me. And if I make a judgment, it can only be on a psychological or sociological level. There are those who take photographs arranged beforehand and those who go out to discover the image and seize it. 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. To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeting reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. 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's putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. with over 40 black and white photographs.
language: English
title: Henri Cartier Bresson
titlecomplete: Henri Cartier Bresson (Aperture History of Photography; Book 1)
genres: Art and Photography, Biography, Classics, Photography, France, Art History, Reference, Picture Books, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 3553
series: Photo Poche
publisher: Aperture