Discover the great works of Henri Cartier-Bresson at Centre Pompidou

Henri Cartier-Bresson, is one of our times greatest photographer and many of is photos can now be seen in the exhibition named after him at Centre Pompidou here in Paris. Since I adore is work I visited the exhibition already a few days after its opening in February. But now it’s getting to is final days so if you are in Paris and love photography this exhibition is a must :-)

Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition at Centre Pompidou – Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris

(exhibition period February 12th – June 9th 2014)

Photos taken with my Fuji Finepix x100s

“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”
“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”
“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”
“A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.”
“Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.”
“Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.”
“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”

“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.”

Quotes : Henri Cartier-Bresson