Volume 42, Number 4 · March 2, 1995

The Moment That Counts: An Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson

By Michel Nuridsany

Henri Cartier-Bresson once briefly summed up his career in this way: 'Photographing,' he said, 'means recognizing, in a single instant, a split second, both a fact and the precise organization of visually perceived forms that expresses that fact. It means putting head, eye, and heart on one line of sight.'



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