HENRY CARTIER-BRESSON

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born 1908 in France, however died at the impressive age of 95 in 2004 after having contributed immensely to the worldwide photography community and to The Magnum Photography Company. He was a French humanist photographer who was and still is seen as a great of truthful and important photography. He contributed massively to the development of the genre of street photography, and he viewed photography as a way of capturing the ''decisive moment.'' His parents helped him financially so that Henri was able to carry out photography more freely without the need to source finance himself. Henri was also an interested artist who enjoyed sketching and painting. While traveling around the world, Bresson became inspired by different forms of art, people and the environment that he was surrounded by. At one point in his life he was also captured by German soldiers which further inspired his work that explored the suffering and pain of war.

Here is a link to Magnum Photos (the company which Bresson contributed to hugely) – https://www.magnumphotos.com/

And here is a link to the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation website – http://www.henricartierbresson.org/en/

Here is some of the work produced by Henri Cartier-Bresson…

In my personal opinion I love the way that Henri Cartier-Bresson was able to make emotionally and physically horrible things and events appear so aesthetically beautiful through the composure and camera skills. This would assist Bresson in creating something that would stand 2 main purposes, one being the aesthetics of his work and the other being the important and meaningful documentary of his work.