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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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French candid photographer remembered as the founder of the art of photojournalism. A pioneer of street photography, he was a recipient of the 1981 Grand Prix National de la Photographie.
Before Fame
As a young man, he trained at the studio and art school of Cubist artist André Lhote.
Trivia
- During the early 1930s, he had an affair with entrepreneur Caresse Crosby that ended in the suicide of Crosby's publisher husband, Harry Crosby.
Family Life
His marriage to dancer Ratna Mohini lasted from 1937 until 1967. He was married to fellow photographer Martine Franck from 1970 until his death in 2004.
Associated With
His 1952 masterpiece of photojournalism, The Decisive Moment, had on its original cover a piece of art by painter Henri Matisse.
Quotes
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept"
Henri Cartier-Bresson
"For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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