Cartier-Bresson
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He then met the likes of photographers Marc Riboud and Henri Cartier-Bresson who signed him up to join the celebrated photo agency Magnum.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Of the impulse to take a photo, to grab the moment, we hear Cartier-Bresson excitedly tell Turner-Seed, “Life is once, forever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
Singh would become one of the world’s most distinguished photographers, winning the 2022 Hasselblad Award, whose past laureates include Wolfgang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
“I may not be Cartier-Bresson, but I can do something good,” she later told the New York Times.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
"The only photographer besides Ansel Adams and Cartier-Bresson that I can remember is the Hungarian guy, Kertesz."
From Joe Burke's Last Stand by Wetterau, John Moncure
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