Flow and Speed

"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Faulkner by Cartier-Bresson

This is a photograph that Cartier-Bresson took of William Faulkner.


I'm not sure if you realise but a distant galaxy actually exploded at the moment that the shutter was depressed and these two men merged into a single searing, blinding point of light and were never heard from again... True story.