Henri Cartier-Bresson

The New China by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1959

In 1958, LIFE asked Henri Cartier-Bresson to return to China, a country he last covered in at the outbreak of…

6 months ago

Shanghai by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1949

Henri Cartier-Bresson spent ten months in China in 1949. LIFE published 26 photos of his in a special report (A…

2 years ago

Seville, 1933 by Henri Cartier-Bresson | Contact Sheets

In 1932, Henri Cartier-Bresson set out on a tour of Southern Europe and the Maghreb; this journey with his 35 mm Leica…

11 years ago

The Men Behind ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson’ Curtain

Sometime in 1934, just after Hitler had come to power, three great photographers met in a dimly lit Berlin apartment…

11 years ago

Che Guevara | Rene Burri

Laura Bergquist of LOOK met Che Guevara at the UN and asked for an interview. She took Rene Burri with…

12 years ago

Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika

"Think while you shoot", wrote Martin Munkacsi in Harper’s Bazaar. From his early years as a sports photographer for the…

14 years ago

Au Bord de la Marne

Although he would later be feted as the father of photojournalism, Henry Cartier-Bresson was at his best when he was…

14 years ago

Nehru and the Mountbattens

In 1947, Henri Cartier-Bresson was in India for the first time to document the newly independent India. His most famous picture…

15 years ago

Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare

He was arguably the last century's greatest photographer, and the photograph above was to Time magazine, "The Photo of the…

15 years ago

Nehru announces Gandhi’s death

1947 found Henri Cartier-Bresson in India to document her independence. As the result of several years' close friendship with Mahatma…

15 years ago