Henri Cartier-Bresson


Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 in Chanteloup, France and is believed to be the founding father of modern street photography—a movement devoted to capturing this flow of time in the public sphere. Cartier-Bresson, born into the rich Parisian household of textile makers, was the self-taught cosmopolitan with a lifelong talent for identifying consequential events and people. He started taking photographs as a kid, but described himself in the early decades after buying a handheld 35mm camera and started to taking pictures in different locations around the world. His earliest pictures were created in Mexico, Spain, and North Africa and were treasured by this Surrealists for their complex, collage-like compositions created of amazing gestures and architectural settings.

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