French artist Henri Cartier-Bresson thought that sensitivity was the most necessary requirement for taking good photographs, or in fact, making good art. He believed that pictures were ...

The reality, of course, is much more complex. A high school dropout, Cartier-Bresson joined Andre Lhote’s painting studio in 1926 and became intrigued with his master’s emphasis on classical ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Frenchman who raised photojournalism to an art form with the use of a small hand-held camera and a vision that photography should capture what he called “the decisive ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs are of some the most epic events of the past century, beautifully printed in black-and-white. The vast majority of those gelatin silver prints were made by one ...

In fact, Cartier-Bresson, 94, began as a painter and he now draws rather than shoots. Not a single photograph is to be found on the walls of his apartment. "Only some drawings and paintings -- and ...

Art Review | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century' By Holland Cotter Rarely has the phrase “man of the world” been more aptly applied than to the protean photographer Henri Cartier ...

Even before he gave up photography 30 years ago to devote himself to drawing and painting, when he talked and wrote more about his craft, Cartier-Bresson was never much of a proselytizer.

The Art Institute is among several institutions exhibiting photographs by Cartier-Bresson, one of the world's most famous photographers during the centenary of his birth in 1908. He died in 2004 ...

ADVERTISEMENT “ Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” which opens at The Museum of Modern Art on April 11 and runs through June 28, is the first major retrospective of the photographer ...

the San Francisco Museum of Art; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris; among several others. Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004) is widely revered as the father of photojournalism and was a co-founder ...