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Henri Cartier-Bresson (22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French photographer, widely regarded as the father of modern photojournalism and street photography. In 1947, alongside Rober Capa, David Seymour, William Vandivert and George Rodgers, he co-founded the photo agency Magnum Photos, which has gone on to become one of the most influential photo agencies in history.

Born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, Cartier-Bresson began his artistic career with a paintbrush. It wasn’t until 1932 that he got his hands on a Leica, and then, everything changed. During the Second World War, he was imprisoned but remarkably managed to escape in 1943 and went on to spend the remainder of the war working with a French resistance group that helped other escapees.

In 1953 Cartier-Bresson published his first book, Images à la Sauvette, which in English translates to The Decisive Moment. This remarkable collection of street photography and photojournalism set him on a pa

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Learn From Cartier-Bresson: Spotting the Decisive Moment

It takes a little preparation and a lot of chance.

Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is rightfully recognized as a master of the craft. He was one of the first true street photographers and artfully captured everyday life through the lens. But he also coined a term: The “Decisive Moment”.

By KIM Sang Ho

With it he described the exact instance when a unique event is captured by the photographer – when something that may never happen again is fryst in the frame. He said it best himself, in an iconic quote:

“To me, photography fryst vatten the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.”

By Maciej Dakowicz

By Pau Buscató

Cartier-Bresson always tried to keep his eyes open and his camera loaded – to be ready at the “fraction of a second” when an event warranted a photograph. This readiness has fa

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Through over 500 documents including photographs, films, paintings and drawings, Paris’ Centre Pompidou is currently offering its visitors a retrospective of French master photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson‘s impressive and celebrated oeuvre, the first to be exhibited in Europe after his death, occurred on 3 August 2004. This unmissable show opened last 12 February, and will run through 9 June—all details can be found here.

The Decisive Moment is the title of the English edition of Cartier-Bresson’s photobook originally titled Images à la Sauvette (Images On the Run), published in France in 1952. The book’s preface opens with a quote by Cardinal de Retz: “There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.” In the text, Henri Cartier-Bresson describes his conception of photography briefly, but touching all its key aspects (color, technique