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| India. Rajasthan. Udaipur. 1966. |
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a French humanist photographer, best known for his candids and early use of 35mm film. Cartier-Bresson captured major events around the world, such as Ghandi and his funeral in India, the end of the Chinese Civil War, and the Soviet Union.
Cartier-Bresson wrote a book called The Decisive Moment, in which he talks about the significance a single photograph can have. He also says that we must know when to take the picture before the moment passes. Above is a photograph of a town in India with beautiful lighting, and person walking down a road. Cartier-Bresson likely had to take into account the time of day, where to meeter, the composition, and when to take the picture before the person walked out of view. Although this photograph is more of a landscape, his street photography shows even more so the quickness in which he had to act to take his photographs.
