Peter Galassi
“In a white streak of invention, he proved that a photographer can handle the world as freely as a sculptor handles clay, all while pretending that he (or she) has touched nothing.”
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier – Bresson, the man the image & the world, Thames & Hudson 2006.
1. Copenhagen, September 18, 2011.
"But the camera's innate honesty can hardly be considered a limitation of the medium, since it bars only that kind of subject matter that properly belongs to the painter.
On the other hand it provides the photographer with the means of looking deeply into the nature of things, and presenting his subjects in terms of their basic reality. It enables him to reveal the essence of what lies before his lens with such clear insight that the beholder may find the recreated image more real and comprehensible than the actual object."
PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
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