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"I have no interest in photography," insists Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, one of the founders of modern photojournalism. But this year would seem to prove him wrong: the Bibliothèque Nationale de ...
There is more than a little irony here. In 1946, the year before helping to found Magnum—a photojournalism agency—Cartier-Bresson was rejecting the documentary shot in favor of the confounding ...
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 ...
As a discipline, it’s intrinsic to Magnum’s core, given that co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson doubles as one of the forefathers of modern street photography. While the term ‘streetwise’ might usually ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ansel Adams. “I was at the same time very pleased of course, very honored, because I know this is the biggest prize in photography,” she said of learning of her ...
Born in Newtownards, Bill Kirk was among the vanguard of local photographers who offered a more complex perspective on communities while global documentary photography was focused ... Robert Frank and ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer and filmmaker known as a pioneer of street photography. His dramatic black-and-white works are among the most iconic images of the 20th century. The ...