The Weekend Design

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.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in you little box.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst!

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one’s own originality. It is a way of life.

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Matisse. 1944.  Henri Cartier-Bresson. Jean-Paul Sartre. 1946.  
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Jeronimos Monastery, Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. 1955.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Presidential Campaign. 1960.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Daughters of the Confederacy. 1960.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Tent City, Near Somerville, Tennessee. 1961.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Torcello Near Venice. 1953.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Pierre Bonnard, Le Cannet, France. 1944.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Ann Arbor Michigan. 1960.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Dessau, Germany. 1954.
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Brie, France. 1968. Henri Cartier-Bresson. Shanghai. 1948.