Henri Cartier Bresson born on August 22, 1908 in chanteloup , France pioneer in photojournalism. He was considering one of the major artists of the 20th century. He died August 3, 2004, Cereste French. He covered many of the world biggest events form the spanish civil war to the French uprising in 1968. His parents supported him financially so Henri could pursue photography more freely than his contemporaries. Henri also sketched in his spare time.
Cartier was educated in Paris. In 1927-1928 he studied in Paris with Andre an artist and critic associated with the cubist movement. Lhote implanted in Cartier a lifelong interesting in painting. 1929 Cartier Bresson went to the university of Cambridge, where he studied literature and painting. He had a creativity certainly a parts of DNA, because his great grandfather and been artist and an uncle was anoted printer. It was here that he was introduced film and photography. His father assumed that his son would take up the family business, but Henri was strong-willed and also feared this prospect. As the eldest son of the new generation, carrier was naturally expected to direct his education and traveling , because him was interesting in explorer the world and saw the real true that people's don't know.
Cartier career as a photojournalist was interrupted when he served in the French army. Cartier was arrested by soldiers in which to scape twice but both unsuccessful until finally managed to scape and decided to work elsewhere until the war end. Was also with Robert Capa, George Rodger, David Seymour and William Vandivert, he founded Magnum Photos in 1947. He was also known for covering Gandihs funeral in 1948. In 1953, he published his book called The Decisive Moment which showcased his 126 photographs from the East and the West. He took wonderful portraits of famous people such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Truman Capote, and Albert Camus, to name a few Army. He worked "as slowly and as poorly as possible twice tried and failed to escape from the prison camp, and was punished by solitary confinement
The impacts that he has during your career Is when that photograph inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. He acquire Leica camera with 50mm lens in Marseilles that would accompany him for many years. In the spring of 1947, Cartier-Bresson, with Robert Capa, David Seymour, William Vandivert and George Rodger founded Magnum Photos. He also photographed the last surviving Imperial eunuchs in Beijing, as the city was falling to the communists. In Shanghai, he often worked in the company of photojournalist Sam Tata, whom Cartier-Bresson had previously befriended in Bombay. photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression"
Henri Cartier Bresson is a photographer who is interested in taking photos in the time passing but mostly capture things that these people are doing and not wait for the time you are viewing is no capture fence. Also explains that the mean for the photojournalism because it finds a unique way to show people the events that led during traveling, but specially in the photo show one of this experiences lived during his life as a photographer Cartier Bresson said: "The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street"
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