Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer who passed away in 2004 at the age of 96. He was usually called "the eye of the century" and became unquestionably the major representative of humanistic photography in the 20th century. Some consider him as the father of the modern photojournalism.
Mr Cartier-Bresson would stride along the streets with his Leica camera to get an opportunity to capture some unexpected scenes that simply happened by chance. His original methods have definitely helped to democratised what we call today the "street photography".
He was often at different places where history was happening. For instance, he visited Gandhi in India in 1948 and then witnessed the transformation of China in 1949 with the victory of Mao Zedong.
Still today, Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered as one of the most influential photograph of the history of photography.
Juvisy (1938)
Brie, France (1968)
Behind the Gare St Lazare (1932)
Moscow (1958)
Beijing (1958)
Torcello near Venice (1953)
