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Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer whose humane, spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism as an art form. His theory that photography can capture the meaning beneath outward appearance in instants of extraordinary clarity is perhaps best expressed in his book Images à.
With over a hundred images shot between 1969 and 2021 across the United States, Vehicular & Vernacular is the first retrospective of Stephen Shore’s work in Paris in nineteen years. On view at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson until September 15,…
Apr 2, 2014 · Henri Cartier-Bresson, a filmmaker and co-creator of the photo agency Magnum, established photojournalism as an art form. Read more about Cartier-Bresson's life and career at...
Aug 3, 2004 · Henri Cartier-Bresson. French Photographer and Filmmaker. Born: August 22, 1908 - Chantelop-en-Brie, France. Died: August 3, 2004 - Montjustin, France. Movements and Styles: Modern Photography. , Straight Photography. , Photojournalism. , Documentary Photography. "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment" 1 of 12.
To tell Henri Cartier-Bresson’s story and to unravel his work is essentially to tell the story of a look. Throughout the 20th century, this roaming, lucid eye has captured the fascination of Africa in the 1920’s, crossed the tragic fortunes of Spanish republicans, accompanied the liberation of Paris, caught a weary Gandhi just hours before his assassination, and witnessed the victory of ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2004. The son of a wealthy textile merchant, Henri Cartier-Bresson studied painting at André Lhote’s academy in Montparnasse in 1927, and soon thereafter entered the bohemian world of the Parisian avant-garde.
Aug 3, 2016 · Cartier-Bresson’s concept of the “decisive moment” — a split second that reveals the larger truth of a situation — shaped modern street photography and set the stage for hundreds of ...
