Learning to See

World is nothing without art (blog) trans-chandra: anafenza:

Never

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

While we’re working, we must be conscious of what we’re doing.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

Of course it’s all luck.

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.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

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.

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.

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm – the relationship between shapes and values.

Photography is nothing–it’s life that interests me.

…it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

– Henri Cartier Bresson