Henri Cartier-Bresson
PhotographerKnown for: street and documentary photography; co-founder of Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson spent more than five decades photographing the world with a Leica rangefinder and a 50mm lens, accumulating work that spans the Spanish Civil War, the partition of India, and the streets of Paris. He was a founding member of Magnum Photos in 1947. His 1952 book The Decisive Moment described a philosophy of photography centered on the brief, unrepeatable instant at which form and content converge.
Gear & Materials(1)
Leica
Introduced in 1954, the M3 was Leitz's first camera to use the M bayonet mount. Its combined viewfinder and rangefinder, with 0.91x magnification, set a standard for 35mm rangefinder design that every subsequent Leica M followed.
“Used a Leica M rangefinder throughout his career; the M3 was his primary camera from the mid-1950s onward.”
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