“Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer and artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and viewed capturing what he named the decisive moment as the essence of the very best pictures.
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culture · French photographer (1908–2004) · photographer · photojournalist · journalist · film director · painter · cinematographer · draftsperson · filmmaker · also Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier Bresson, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Bresson, Cartier-Bresson
Born 22 August 1908 · Died 3 August 2004 · Q156567
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet news: Henri Cartier-Bresson
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2018· 2 entries
Architectural Digest: Paris’s Newest Major Museum Is Dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The foundation relocated from the Montparnasse district to Le Marais
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2015· 1 entry
Artnet: Henri Cartier-Bresson and That Decisive Moment: Wisdom from the Artist on his Birthday
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2010· 3 entries
Forbes: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Aesthetic Contrarian
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Time: Exhibit: Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Christian Science Monitor: Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Master's Black and White World
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2004· 1 entry
Died 2004-08-03.
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Lucie Award (2003).
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Created the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris with his wife, the Belgian photographer Martine Franck, and his daughter to preserve and share his legacy
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2000· 1 entry
Cartier-Bresson noted that it wasn't necessarily that he hated to be photographed, but it was that he was embarrassed by the notion of being photographed for being famous
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1998· 1 entry
Tête à Tête – National Portrait Gallery, London
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1995· 1 entry
Dessins et Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson – CRAC (Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain) Valence, Drome, France
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1994· 1 entry
Henri Cartier-Bresson: L'amour Tout Court (70 mins, 2001
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1992· 1 entry
Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson – International Center of Photography, New York
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Hasselblad Award (1982).
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Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson – Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
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1975· 1 entry
Held a paper in front of his face to avoid being photographed
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1968· 1 entry
Began to turn away from photography and return to his passion for drawing and painting
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1967· 1 entry
Was divorced from his first wife of 30 years, Ratna (known as "Elie")
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1966· 1 entry
To concentrate on portraiture and landscapes
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1962· 1 entry
On behalf of Vogue, he went to Sardinia for about twenty days
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1958· 1 entry
Cartier-Bresson documented the construction of the Ming Tombs Reservoir
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1957· 1 entry
“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative”
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1955· 1 entry
Retrospektive – Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris
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1954· 1 entry
By Cartier-Bresson, is a classic example of capturing a decisive moment
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1952· 1 entry
Cartier-Bresson published his book Images à la sauvette, whose English-language edition was titled The Decisive Moment, (although the French-language title actually translates as "images on the sly" or "hastily taken ima
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1950· 1 entry
Cartier-Bresson had traveled to the South India
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1948· 1 entry
And the last stage of the Chinese Civil War in 1949
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1947· 1 entry
Accompanied by the publication of his first book, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson
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1944· 1 entry
The Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the May 1968 protests in Paris, and the Berlin Wall
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1943· 1 entry
Dug up his beloved Leica camera, which he had buried in Vosges farmland
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1937· 3 entries
In 1937, Cartier-Bresson married a Javanese dancer, Ratna Mohini.
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Cartier-Bresson married a Javanese dancer, Ratna Mohini
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When he covered the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, for the French weekly Regards
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1936· 1 entry
For La vie est à nous and Une partie de campagne, and in 1939 for La Règle du Jeu
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1935· 1 entry
With an invitation to exhibit his work at New York's Julien Levy Gallery
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1934· 2 entries
Cartier-Bresson met a young Polish intellectual, a photographer named David Szymin who was called "Chim" because his name was difficult to pronounce
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In Mexico, he shared an exhibition with Manuel Álvarez Bravo
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1933· 1 entry
And subsequently at the Ateneo Club in Madrid
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1930· 1 entry
Was conscripted into the French Army and stationed at Le Bourget near Paris, a time about which he later remarked: "And I had quite a hard time of it, too, because I was toting Joyce under my arm and a Lebel rifle on
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1929· 1 entry
Cartier-Bresson's air squadron commandant placed him under house arrest for hunting without a licence
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1927· 1 entry
Cartier-Bresson entered a private art school and the Lhote Academy, the Parisian studio of the Cubist painter and sculptor André Lhote, alongside William Klein, Frédéric Menguy and Gerda Sutton
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-08-22.
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