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  • The Decisive Moment: An Henri Cartier-Bresson Documentary

    The Decisive Moment: An Henri Cartier-Bresson Documentary

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    C.P. Plunkett
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    In 1952, the Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson — street photography pioneer and perhaps its most influential master — published his book Images à la sauvette. Loosely translated, it means “images on the run.” The book’s English edition title was alternatively chosen as The Decisive Moment, thereby giving street photography its most definitive and well-known catch phrase.…