“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 ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled the world for four decades, both documenting and participating in the art, political, and social movements that would move twentieth-century culture from the old to the ...

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Preface and acknowledgements / Peter Galassi -- Old worlds, modern times / Peter Galassi -- Photographs -- List of photographs -- Points of reference / Aude Raimbult, Dan ...

Documentary photography began to be used as social reform evidence in the 19th century, with early practitioners using the camera to record social conditions and urban poverty.

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 man ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson, who almost single-handedly brought photojournalism to the pitch of pictorial art, died Tuesday in l'Ile-sur- Sorgue, France. He was 95. Cartier-Bresson became one of the most ...

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 “composed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “An astrologer’s shop in the mill workers’ quarter of Parel.” Bombay, Maharashtra, India • 1947. (Photo: Henri ...