Alberto Giacometti, Rue d'Alesia, Paris

A masterful black-and-white photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson captures the iconic sculptor Alberto Giacometti navigating the rain-slicked streets of Paris's Rue d'Alesia, his elongated figure echoing the stretched, ghostly forms of his own celebrated sculptures. Cartier-Bresson's signature instinct for the "decisive moment" is evident in the dynamic composition, as Giacometti strides purposefully through the urban landscape, plaster dust coating his coat. Printed later as a gelatin silver print, the image stands as both an intimate portrait of a creative giant and a timeless document of mid-twentieth-century Parisian life.