Henri Cartier-Bresson - Wikipedia
WEBHenri Cartier-Bresson ( French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. [1] . He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. [2] [3]
Henri Cartier-Bresson • Photographer Profile • Magnum Photos
WEBFounding member. Born in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne, in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson developed a strong fascination with painting early on, particularly with Surrealism. In 1932, after spending a year in the Ivory Coast, he discovered the Leica, his camera of choice thereafter, and began a lifelong passion for photography.
Henri Cartier-Bresson | MoMA
WEBHenri Cartier-Bresson (French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Biography, Photos, The Decisive
WEBHenri 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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson Photography, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBAug 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 …
Biography - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
WEBTo 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 …
Henri Cartier-Bresson - Biography
WEBApr 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...
Henri Cartier-Bresson | International Center of Photography
WEBBiography. Henri Cartier-Bresson has intuitively chronicled decisive moments of human life around the world with poetic documentary style. His photographs impart spontaneous instances with meaning, mystery, and humor in terms of precise visual organization, and his work, although tremendously difficult to imitate, has influenced many other ...
Home - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
WEBWith 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,…
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) | Essay | The Metropolitan …
WEBHenri 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.
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