Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri CartierBresson was a French humanist photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35160mm film. He helped develop street photography, and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment, a term adopted as the title for his first major book. His work has influenced many photographers.

Henri CartierBresson was born in ChanteloupenBrie, SeineetMarne, France, the oldest of five children. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, whose CartierBresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. His mothers family were cotton merchants and landowners from Normandy, where Henri spent part of his childhood. The CartierBresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, Rue de Lisbonne, near Place de lEurope and Parc Monceau. His parents supported him financially so Henri could pursue photography more freely than his contemporaries. Henri also sketched.

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