Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908 - 2004 one of the greatest photographers.
The photograph below was taken in Athens, Greece, I have passed by there many times. I am glad that he captured it for posterity. Isle sur la Sorgue is one of my favorite places (after Athina of course). My mother was a photographer, always with her Leica at hand.
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908 - 2004 Born in Chanteloup, he died in Isle sur la Sorgue. "Cartier-Bresson started painting in 1923 and began to photograph in 1931, met Teriade, the editor of Verve magazine and frequented members of the French surrealist movement. After a trip to the Ivory Coast he discovered the Leica, since then his camera of choice"...more on more
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"Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the major artists of the 20th century, who used his tiny hand-held 35-mm Leica camera to bear humane witness to many of the.." more>> via...IHT
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