PHOTOGRAPHER

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

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Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Cartier-Bresson has received more than 1,817,182 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Henri Cartier-Bresson is the 2nd most popular photographer, the 390th most popular biography from France (down from 316th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Photographer.

Henri Cartier-Bresson is most famous for his candid photographs of people in the street.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 2 out of 148. Before him are Nadar. After him are Helmut Newton, Alberto Korda, Robert Doisneau, Alexander Rodchenko, Eadweard Muybridge, Dora Maar, Heinrich Hoffmann, Vivian Maier, Elliott Erwitt, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 16. Before him are Herbert von Karajan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Otto Skorzeny, Lev Landau, Olivier Messiaen, and John Bardeen. After him are Geli Raubal, Simon Wiesenthal, Ian Fleming, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mika Waltari, and Anna Magnani. Among people deceased in 2004, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 12. Before him are Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and Czesław Miłosz. After him are Peter Ustinov, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Susan Sontag, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 390 out of 6,770. Before him are Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Léo Delibes (1836), Louis IV of France (920), Fernandel (1903), and Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715). After him are Jules Rimet (1873), Ernest Renan (1823), Paul Éluard (1895), James I of Aragon (1208), Gustave Moreau (1826), and Dagobert I (611).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks 2. Before him are Nadar (1820). After him are Robert Doisneau (1912), Dora Maar (1907), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Claude Cahun (1894), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Patrick Demarchelier (1943), Sophie Calle (1953), and Étienne Carjat (1828).

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