DETAILS
- Artist
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Date
- 1923
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.7 x 29.7 cm (7 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gilman Collection, Purchase, Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts, by exchange, 2005
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THE ARTIST
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the 'master of candid photography,' captured the 'decisive moment' in everyday life with his ever-present Leica camera.
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