
Interview - Henri Cartier-Bresson - 2000This following text comes from a Henri Cartier-Bresson interview conducted by Charlie Rose in 2000. I spent a good few hours on this but still could not get every word, sorry. Please feel free to fill in any gaps. The video footage can be found on YouTube.
FOREWORD
Rose: Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of this centuries icons of photography. He has transformed the art of photography with his uncanny sense of timing, his intuition in seizing the right moment, his sensitivity and his sense of geometry. His photographs have given a meaning to the world they arrest. He is a marksman and a sharpshooter whose main tool is spontaneity. By the early 1