Cartier-Bresson's interest in modern art was combined with an admiration for the works of the Renaissance masters: Jan van Eyck, Paolo Uccello, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca. Lhote took his pupils to the Louvre to study classical artists and to Paris galleries to study contemporary art. Cartier-Bresson also studied painting with society portraitist Jacques Émile Blanche.ĭuring that period, he read Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Rimbaud, Nietzsche, Mallarmé, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Hegel, Engels and Marx.
Lhote's ambition was to integrate the Cubists' approach to reality with classical artistic forms he wanted to link the French classical tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David to Modernism. In 1927, Cartier-Bresson entered a private art school and the Lhote Academy, the Parisian studio of the Cubist painter and sculptor André Lhote. But his painting lessons were cut short when uncle Louis was killed in World War I. After trying to learn music, Cartier-Bresson was introduced to oil painting by his uncle Louis, a gifted painter and winner of the Prix de Rome in 1910. He studied painting when he was just 5 years old, taking an apprenticeship in his uncle Louis' studio. But he went on, 'You're going to read in my office.' Well, that wasn't an offer he had to repeat." Painting Cartier-Bresson said, "He used the informal 'tu', which usually meant you were about to get a good thrashing. The proctor caught him reading a book by Rimbaud or Mallarmé, and reprimanded him, "Let's have no disorder in your studies!". A governess called "Miss Kitty" who came from across the Channel, instilled in him the love of - and competence in - the English language. His father assumed that his son would take up the family business, but Henri was strong-willed and also feared this prospect.Ĭartier-Bresson attended École Fénelon, a Catholic school that prepared students for the Lycée Condorcet. He was raised in traditional French bourgeois fashion, and was required to address his parents with formal vous rather than tu. Young Henri took holiday snapshots with a Box Brownie he later experimented with a 3×4 inch view camera. Since his parents were providing financial support, Henri pursued photography more freely than his contemporaries. The Cartier-Bresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, Rue de Lisbonne, near Place de l'Europe and Parc Monceau. His mother was descended from Charlotte Corday. His mother's family were cotton merchants and landowners from Normandy, where Henri spent part of his childhood.
His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, whose Cartier-Bresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France. In the 1970s, he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting to paint. Ĭartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Henri Cartier-Bresson ( French: 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1981
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