Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

1. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) • (äNrē´ kärtēā´-brĕsôN) • Born in France in 1908 • Considered the father of modern photojournalism • Most famous book was “The Decisive Moment,” published in 1952 • Cover drawn by Matisse

2. Portrait of the late photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Photograph by Martine Franck

3. Co-founded Magnum photo agency in 1947 with group of other photographers • Shot for Life and other prominent magazines • Liked to print negatives with black borders to show they had been cropped in camera • Retired in early 1970s Photo of Fidel Castro for Life cover.

4. Henri Cartier-Bresson seen in 1972 in Forcalquier, the Alpes de Haute-Provence, France, Photo by Martine Franck

5. The Decisive Moment • The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression. • Henry Cartier Bresson

6. Henri Cartier-Bresson Behind the Gare St. Lazare, 1932

7. London, 1938. The people had waited all night at Trafalgar Swuare in order not to miss any part of the coronation ceremony of George VI. Some sat on benches and on newspapers. The next morning, one wearier than the others had not yet wakened to see the ceremony for which he had kept such a late vigil.

8. London, 1938. Waiting in Trafalgar Square for the coronation parade of King George VI.

9. A family picnic by the River Marne, France 1938

10. Madrid, Spain, 1933

11. Seville, Spain, 1933

12. Hasidic Jews in Jerusalem Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1967

13. The "boy with the bottles" in Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 1954. / Henri Cartier-Bresson

14. Barrio chino, Barcelona, 1933. “The narrow street of Barcelona’s roughest quarter is the home of prostitutes, petty thieves and dope peddlers. But I saw a fruit vendor sleeping against a wall in the narrow street and was struck by the surprisingly gentle and articulate drawing scrawled there.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment

15. Dessau, Germany, 1945. In a camp of displaced persons waiting for repatriation, Gestapo informer who had pretended to be a refugee is discovered and exposed by a camp inmate whose face is illuminated by the strong, sharp light of rage.

16. Queen Charlotte's Ball, London, 1959. / Henri Cartier-Bresson

17. Brie, France, 1968. / Henri Cartier-Bresson

18. Blurred bike. Henri Cartier - Bresson, (Hyères), France 1932

19. Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Siphnos), Greece 1961

20. Georg Eisler, 1993

21. Truman Capote in New Orleans, 1947

22. Cape Cod, Mass., 1947. It was the Fourth of July and this woman explained to me that the flagpole over her door was broken but, “on such a day as this, one keeps one’s flag over one’s heart.”

23. Robert Oppenheimer, 1958

24. John Houston, 1946. / Henri Cartier-Bresson

25. Henri Carier-Bresson, (Henri Matisse), Vence, France, 1944

26. Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, 1933

27. Andre Pieyre de Mandiarques, 1991

28. Prostitutes in Mexico City, 1934

29. Martin Luther King, 1961

30. West Point cadets and their admiring young ladies attend the Army vs. Notre Dame game. New York, 1947

31. A mother waited, and searched the faces of hundreds of disembarking refugees -- and finally found the son she had not seen throughout the war. New York, 1946.

32. In the late summer the unemployed fill the benches of the square with their old hats on, their collars close around their necks as though they sense the beginning of autumn and the coming of winter. They read the want ads, the sports pages, the illustrated magazines -- and resassure themselves, perhaps, that there is some comfort, some hope, in reality.

33. Montmartre, Paris, 1938. Cardinal Pacelli visited, and the throngs were outside of Sacre-Coeur to see him, to tough him if possible. The people were Shouting “Vive Dieu.”

34. Rumania, 1975.

35. Brussels, 1932

36. A bridal pair at a café on the Marne which is part bistro, part garden. The two were here for the entire afternoon with a full wedding part which included uncles, aunts and small children of the family. Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris, 1938.

37. A peasant funeral. According to custom, the priest who officiates at the entire ceremony leaves the group halfway to the burial ground. Only the bearers and mourners accompany the body up the hillside. Lucania, Southern Italy, 1952

38. Peking, 1949. A eunuch of the imperial court of the last dynasty.

39. During the last days of the Kuomintang supremacy, the currency was failing and the government put gold on the market. People rushed to all the banks in the city and pushed and crowded those who had got there before them. Seven people died in the crushing of the crowds. Shanghai, 1948

40. There is an idleness and despair where people are gathered without homes. At Kurukshetra camp they were given simple gymnastics to distract them, to work off their energies. Punjab, India, 1947

41. Moslem women on the slopes of Hari Parbal Hill in Srinagar, pray toward the sun rising behind the Himalayas. Kashmir, 1948

42. The second Maharajah of Baroda in her palace. The diamonds once belonged to Napoleon. Baroda, India, 1948

43. On the thirty-ninth birthday of his Highness the Maharajah of Baroda, sugar balls are distributed to the poor. Baroda, India, 1948

44. Peasants at a cotton market. Jaipur, India, 1948

45. Moslem working women. Jaipur, India, 1948

46. The Death House, a hotel to which people retire when they feel they are going to die. Downstairs a funeral ceremony is being performed which arouses the curiosity of passers-by. Singapore, 1940

47. A Taoist priest performing funeral music in the Death House. It is felt most important that there be a proper tribute for death. People who feel it coming come here to wait for it, ceremonies for funerals take place downstairs, and upstairs in dormitories lie the waiting ones.

48. Upstairs in The Death House the various inmates patiently wait for their turn to die. Some of them have been there for as long as two years. Singapore, 1949