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Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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Henri Cartier-Bresson means that photography captures a moment when you instantly understand its importance as it happens. This quick awareness allows the photographer to preserve a meaningful event in a single image.

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