Henri Cartier-Bresson was a fantastic French photographer who is widely considered to be the father of, not Celestron binoculars, but modern photojournalism. The master of candid photography, Cartier-Bresson developed “real life reportage” as a style that went on to influence generations and generations of photographers who succeeded him. Born on August 22nd 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson was to make a massive impact on the path that photography would take.
Henri Cartier-Bresson had actually first been interested in painting, and only switched his attentions to photography in the mid 1930’s. Cartier-Bresson became inspired by a photo taken by Martin Munkacsi which showed three young and naked African boys running into Lake Tanganyika’s surg. Cartier-Bresson said on the photograph: “When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn’t believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street”.
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