"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
— Recognition

January 1, 1970

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Henri Cartier-Bresson in: Scott Walden Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature, John Wiley & Sons, 29 March 2010, p. 180.