PHOTOGRAPHER

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

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Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: [ɑ̃ʁi kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting to paint. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Cartier-Bresson is the 2nd most popular photographer, the 383rd most popular biography from France (up from 390th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Photographer.

Henri Cartier-Bresson is most famous for his candid photographs of people in the street.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 2 out of 148. Before him are Nadar. After him are Heinrich Hoffmann, Eadweard Muybridge, Alberto Korda, Helmut Newton, Dora Maar, Alexander Rodchenko, Vivian Maier, Robert Doisneau, Oliviero Toscani, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Among people born in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 17. Before him are Otto Skorzeny, Amon Göth, Edward Teller, Willard Van Orman Quine, Olivier Messiaen, and Hannes Alfvén. After him are Don Bradman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simon Wiesenthal, Bette Davis, Anna Magnani, and John Bardeen. Among people deceased in 2004, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 11. Before him are Ahmed Yassin, Juliana of the Netherlands, Ray Charles, Estée Lauder, Czesław Miłosz, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. After him are Francis Crick, Peter Ustinov, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Susan Sontag, Françoise Sagan, and Christopher Reeve.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 383 out of 6,770. Before him are Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Robert Guiscard (1016), and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738). After him are Fernand Braudel (1902), Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Dagobert I (611), François Arago (1786), Jean Arp (1886), and Marquis de Condorcet (1743).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 2. Before him are Nadar (1820). After him are Dora Maar (1907), Robert Doisneau (1912), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Étienne Carjat (1828), Sophie Calle (1953), Claude Cahun (1894), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), and Patrick Demarchelier (1943).

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