The Photographer
A photographer was invited to dinner with friends, and he took along a few photos to show to them. The hostess looked at the photos and commented, "These are very good! You must have a good camera." The photographer didn't make any comment, but as he was leaving to go home, he said, "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very good pots."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The quintessential photojournalist, Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004) worked like a detective. He concealed his camera, a Leica whose shiny surfaces he'd covered up-under his coat or in his pocket, seizing images of subjects who never noticed him, never had the chance to pose. He waited in the shadows for that moment when the forms converged in a perfect, eloquent composition and then, secretly, silently, he shot. “For me, photography is very much a physical pleasure—it's like hunting, except that we don't kill.”
Quotes by Photographers
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!” ― Ted Grant
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