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Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22nd 1908 with Chanteloup-in-Brie - August 3rd 2004 with Montjustin, Alp-of-High-Provence) was a Photographe French and, with Walker Evans, Brassaï, Kertész and much of others, a pioneer of the Photojournalisme combined to the photography of Article It is often refers to him under the 3 letters HCB .
With Robert Wrapped, David Seymour, William Vandivert and George Rodger, it founds in 1947 celebrates it co-operative agency Magnum Photographs. In 2003, at the age of ninety-five years (one year before its death), a foundation bearing its name was created with Paris to ensure the conservation and the presentation of its work and also to support and expose the photographers of which it felt near.
Known for the precision with the chopper and the graphics of its compositions (ever recadrées with pulling), it was especially illustrated in the Reportage of street, the representation of the picturesque or significant aspects of the daily life of ( Of Europeans ). He is the inventor of the concept of “decisive moment”, also the title of the collection where he exposes his definition of photography published in 1952 with a cover of Matisse, at the time of the taken of sight.
For some, it is a mythical figure of the Photographie of the 20th century, that its longevity enabled him to cross, while carrying its glance on the major events which marked out its history. One of its biographers (Pierre Assouline) known as thus of him that it was “the eye of the century”.
Biography
After studies of painting in 1927-1928 during Andre Lhote with Montparnasse and a frequentation of the Parisian surrealist circles, it decides to be devoted to the Photographie. It is at 23 years, in Ivory Coast, which it takes its first stereotypes with Krauss of occasion. It has lived a sorrow of love and has just come very close to death. It publishes its report the following year (1931). It buys its first Leica in Marseilles in 1932. In 1947, it Co-founds the arranges Magnum and traverses the world as a humanistic photographer: he travels in Africa, with the Mexico, the the United States, carries out in 1936 documentary on the hospitals of the republican Spain and becomes the assistant of the scenario writer Jean Renoir.Formed with the school of the Art schools, it gives up finally photography in 1970 to devote itself to the drawing. One year before its death, the National library of France devotes a great retrospective exposure to him, with Robert Delpire as police chief, whereas opens with Paris, in the district Montparnasse the foundation HCB, which ensures the conservation of its work and its presentation the public, as those of the photographers which are expensive to him, around or of the practices of the report. This Foundation also decrees every two years and since 1989 a Prix which gives right an exposure, two years after, within the Foundation.