hail henri

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is a very famous French photographer who was one of the first to photograph people candidly and is often called the "father of modern photojournalism".  I really love the way he captures ordinary daily life.  His gorgeous images make me want to take more pictures of everyday people out in the world.  I am so inspired by this man who was able to live through and photograph so many things in his 95 years.

Cartier-Bresson spent more than three decades on assignment for Life and other journals. He traveled without bounds, documenting some of the great upheavals of the 20th century — the Spanish civil war, the liberation of Paris in 1944, the 1968 student rebellion in Paris, the fall of the Kuomintang in China to the communists, the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the Berlin Wall, and the deserts of Egypt. And along the way he paused to document portraits of Camus, Picasso, Colette, Matisse, Pound and Giacometti. But many of his most renowned photographs, such as Behind the Gare St. Lazare, are of ordinary daily life, seemingly unimportant moments captured and then gone.  --taken from Wikipedia