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Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Father of Modern Photography

Henri Cartier-Bresson, considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, was a French photographer and the Master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, near Paris, France, the eldest of five children. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer. Cartier-Bresson achieved international recognition for his coverage of Gandhiji's funeral in India in 1948 and the last (1949) stage of the Chinese Civil War. In his book The Decisive Moment He says: "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression."

He traveled without bounds, documenting some of the great upheavals of the 20th century — the Spanish civil war, the liberation of Paris in 1945, the 1968 student rebellion in Paris, the fall of the Kuomintang in China to the communists, the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the Berlin Wall, and the deserts of Egypt. And along the way he paused to document portraits of Sartre, Picasso, Colette, Matisse, Pound and Giacometti.

 

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