During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth…
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the…
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that…
Once, Henri [Cartier-Bresson] rang me in Paris and said, 'Josef, [André] Kertész is in town, you must come to dinner…
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment…
Since his is fundamentally a tragic vision, he reacted most feelingly to what in America he saw as related to…