As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
Henri Cartier-BressonHe made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
Henri Cartier-BressonAnd no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual lightโeven when there isn't any of it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson