Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer who is most famous for his candid and street photographer, also known as capturing the decisive moment. He was also one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In 1940 he was taken prisoner of war and in 1943 he was lucky enough to have escaped and joined an underground organisation to help other prisoners escape too. Follwoing his escape, in 29145 he documented the liberation of Paris with a group of professional photographers and filmed the documentary Le Retour (The Return).
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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. (2020). Biography – Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. [online] Available at: https://www.henricartierbresson.org/en/hcb/biography/ [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019].
