Photographers and wannabe photographers, listen up. The Sartorialist, Cobrasnake and Streetpeeper have nothing on Henri Cartier-Bresson. He was in before photographer pseudonyms and blogs were hip, becoming famous for his portraits as well as photographs during his travels to Mexico, Indonesia, Europe, China, Japan, the United States and the Middle East, photographing pivotal eras in history such as post-war Soviet Union. He was in before Leica’s were a hipster must-have, exclusively using a Leica 35mm rangefinder wrapped in black tape (to make it less conspicuous in public).
He took thousands of portraits and documented thousands of moments in time before passing away in 2004 – prior to his passing he curated Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image and The World with his friend Robert Delpire, to be exhibited at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris. It’s travelled the oceans to QAG, where it will be exhibited for three months. To see the images that created a movement in street photography and inspired today’s greats, head to the Cultural Centre.