Calling his work “subjective documentary,” he seemed to take an almost anthropological delight in chronicling the absurdities of human behavior. By Ali Watkins A rare glimpse inside the archive of The ...

"A reconstruction of the 1935 exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York"--P. facing t.p. "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Documentary and anti-graphic ...

“The intensive use of the photographs by the mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer.... We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the ...

French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson died at the age of 95. Ray Suarez discusses the work of Cartier-Bresson with Phillip Brookman, curator of photography at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington.

Sometimes you need to break the rules. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a legendary rule-breaker, and his discordance with photography's stymied role in culture changed the medium forever. His book The ...

The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004) was influential in ways and on a scale that, in all likelihood, will never be repeated or matched by any other practitioner of the craft. So ...

Image: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.56 cm.) With his small, light Leica camera, Henri Cartier-Bresson was able to photograph spontaneously and in places where larger cameras could not fit, such as a ...

Within the canon of European photography books it would be difficult to find one more famous, revered and influential as Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Images a la Sauvette or, as the American edition is ...

The anniversary show at the International Center of Photography, with 170 pictures, demonstrates how the camera can illuminate, persuade and puzzle. By Arthur Lubow His camera captured the variety of ...

Jeffrey Brown takes a look back at the life and career of the late French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism. An exhibit of his photos is currently at New York's ...

In 1947, two years after WWII ended, four war photographers founded Magnum Photos. Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour had each reported on the atrocities and ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson, born on August 22, 1908, in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, grew up in a cultivated bourgeois household as the son of a successful textile industrialist. His early immersion in art ...