Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 22. August 1908 |
Geburtsort | Chanteloup-en-Brie, France |
Todesort | Céreste |
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Beschreibung | Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French 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. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s, he took up drawing—he had studied painting in the 1920s. |
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
