Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908, 2004) was a French photographer widely regarded as the father of modern photojournalism and street photography. He pioneered the concept of the 'decisive moment,' capturing fleeting instants of everyday life with extraordinary compositional precision using a small Leica camera. A co-founder of the Magnum Photos agency in 1947, his work profoundly influenced the art of documentary and humanist photography throughout the twentieth century.