Henri Cartier-Bresson (Jane Brown 1957)
One of the world's greatest photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson died today at 95. Cartier-Bresson was an inspiration for me and probably any photographer with notions of being good or respectable.
Behind The Gare St. Lazare (Henri Cartier-Bresson 1932)
He has said that a sense of human dignity is an essential quality for any photojournalist, and feels that no picture, regardless of how brilliant from a visual or technical standpoint, can be successful unless it grows from love and comprehension of people and an awareness of "man facing his fate." [...] "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject," he wrote in The Decisive Moment. "The little human detail can become a leitmotif."
More Cartier-Bresson photographs
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