Henri Cartier-Bresson

Aug 22, 1908 - Aug 3, 2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s he took up drawing—he had studied painting in the 1920s.

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Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced (1945)

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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (1932)

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Seville, Spain (1933)

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Rue Mouffetard, Paris (1954)

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Roman Amphitheater, Valencia, Spain

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Coronation of King George VI, London, England (1937)

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Juvisy, France (1938)

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“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”