This french photography created not only beautiful and interesting photographs, but his work inspired – and continues to inspire – many other photographers and photographic movements. What makes Cartier-Bresson so interesting is his ability to compose and catch a photograph off the street that looks like it was set up in a studio and taken from a million different angles. Part of this unique ability was the “decisive moment” a term Cartier-Bresson coined himself to refer to the moment when all the elements in photograph were perfectly lined up. Cartier-Bresson was able to use his artistic timing to capture motion and everyday events, such as children playing, a man jumping, a train passing over a bridge, and give them new life and make them far more interesting. The fact that Cartier-Bresson hires someone else to develop his photographs shows that for him the art of photography lies in the act of taking a picture, and the rest is just technical.
