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
The project was anchored by Turner-Seed’s groundbreaking interviews with the world’s best living photographers at the time, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cecil Beaton, Lisette Model and Gordon Parks.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
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
Few if any of her photographs, printed here in black and white, capture what Cartier-Bresson called decisive moments.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 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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