About Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer, and also an artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and viewed capturing what he named the decisive moment as the essence of the very best pictures. The two men both had an interest in photography, and Harry presented Henri with his first camera. The Surrealist movement, founded in 1924, was a catalyst for this paradigm shift. Although Cartier-Bresson became frustrated with Lhote's "rule-laden" approach to art, the rigorous theoretical training later helped him identify and resolve problems of artistic form and composition in photography.
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