Henri Cartier-Bresson Rest break between two drawing poses, Photograph 1989 Fine art offset lithograph. Printed on high quality “BVS-PLUS matt” paper (250g/qm) by Scheufelen, Lenningen Schirmer Mosel 25 year Jubilee Portfolio Unsigned from the Schirmer Mosel 25 year Jubilee Portfolio. Certified in print lower left (recto) and middle centre (verso) Henri Cartier-Bresson (22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer, and also an artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and viewed capturing what he named the decisive moment as the essence of the very best pictures. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting to paint.