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He escaped in 1943, dug up the Leica camera he had buried in the ... "The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson," the MOMA show, opened with 163 prints in February 1947, and the scrapbook was ...
As Henri Cartier-Bresson famously said: “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” It’s a quote we often cling to – part ...
Founded in 1869 by Ernst Leitz, Leica began as a manufacturer of ... and the camera was revered by photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson. Even in 1869, Leitz had a reputation for treating ...
"I have no interest in photography," insists Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, one of the founders of modern photojournalism. But this year would seem to prove him wrong: the Bibliothèque Nationale de ...
In January 1948, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson took the last photos of Gandhi before the Indian leader's assassination. Those images, and the ones of the funeral, are now on display at ...
Jeffrey Brown takes a look back at the life and career of the late French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism. An exhibit of his photos is currently at New ...