Henri Cartier-Bresson

His spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism. He was born August 22, 1908 in France and died on August 3, 2004. He almost made it to 100 years old. In 1929, he went to the University of Cambridge and he studied literature and painting.

His first serious concern was somewhere around 1930, after seeing the work of two major photographers. He traveled to Africa in 1931, and he only had a small camera where he recorded everything he saw. Later, in 1933, he finally bought his first 35-mm Leica. He tried to keep himself almost “undercover” because he tried to hide his camera so people wouldn’t see that he was a photographer.