Today as I am reading the news I learn of yet another great photographer. While there seems to be some confusion as to when or how he died there is no confusion over the life he led.
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In 1946 photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson glued the pictures which formed the basis of his first American exhibition into a scrapbook. The prints have recently been restored by the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Cartier-Bresson his wife Retna Mohini in 1936
Famous pictures, such as this one taken in Brussels in 1932 (inset), contain some of Cartier-Bresson’s handwritten notes on the reverse. This one states simply: “One of my very first pictures.” 
Only a few actual pages of the original scrapbook have survived, and these are also reproduced in Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook published by Thames & Hudson.
Cartier-Bresson's ability to blend into his surroundings led to writer Truman Capote describing him as “dancing along the pavement like an agitated dragonfly” when he was taking pictures. (Photo: Two children taken in Italy in 1933)
Cartier-Bresson's show in New York was beset by problems. Initially it was thought he had died whilst imprisoned during the war, and then the shortage of photographic paper in Europe meant supplies had to shipped from the US.
The collection also demonstrates how Cartier-Bresson edited the sequences of photographed he'd taken in the search for the one image he would eventually choose to show publicly - here he photographed gypsies in Spain in 1933.
Source: BBC
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