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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

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.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

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.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

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.

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.

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.