Buying and Selling Birds, Beijing, China
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.2 × 16.2 cm (9 1/2 × 6 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2012.118.10
About the Artist
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century, a founding figure of modern photojournalism and the originator of the concept of the 'decisive moment' — the instant when form, meaning, and geometry align in a single unrepeatable image. Born on 22 August 1908 in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, into a wealthy textile family, he wa...