This man was the first (*) Western photographer allowed inside the USSR after the death of Stalin, and he photographed Gandhi minutes before he was killed.
This man showed a picnic overlooking a river in his Juvisy, France, and he depicted a prostitute with mask-like makeup in his Calle Cuauhtemoctzin [KAH-yeh Kwa-tee-MOWCT-zeen], part of a series set in Mexico City. Two boys stand in front of a graffiti-covered wall in his Andalusia, and he showed the titular artist with pet birds in his Matisse. This artist depicted a mob of Chinese people trying to buy gold before the Japanese invasion as part of his series Last Days of the Kuomintang. One concept introduced by this man in Images a la Sauvette refers to simultaneously recognizing the meaning of an event and the organization of forms used to express it. This man was the first (*) Western photographer allowed inside the USSR after the death of Stalin, and he photographed Gandhi minutes before he was killed. For ten points, identify this photographer who, along with Robert Capa, founded Magnum Photos and introduced the idea of "the decisive moment."
This man showed a picnic overlooking a river in his Juvisy, France, and he depicted a prostitute with mask-like makeup in his Calle Cuauhtemoctzin [KAH-yeh Kwa-tee-MOWCT-zeen], part of a series set in Mexico City.
Henri Cartier-Bresson