Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson studied painting before taking up photography un his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency Magnum (together with Robert Cape and the others), he is best known for the consummate skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes. This volume includes selections from his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico, and pre- revoluntionary, China. Introduced by Michael Brenson, it shows art is an expression of common humanity.