Henri Cartier Bresson: "To photograph is to hold one's…"

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Photographier c'est retenir son souffle lorsque toutes les facultés convergent pour capturer une réalité fugitive.

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“Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which capt...”

Henri Cartier Bresson

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