HCB Quote of the Day

May 03, 2025

Aperture has a wonderful little book of interviews with Henri Cartier-Bresson, in which he says the following.

"Rene Char wrote somewhere about poetry that some people invent and others discover.  These are two very different worlds.  These two aspects also exist in photography.  I am only interested in people who discover.  I feel solidarity for those who go for discoveries; for me, there is much more risk involved in that than in trying to completely fabricate images.  And in the end, reality is so much richer!"

While I don't at all disparage the constructors of images, I share HCB's solidarity with those who aim to discover.

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