The Visit of Cardinale Pacelli a Montmartre, Paris, 1938

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm 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.In the 1970s he took up drawing—he had studied painting in the 1920s.