Category Archives: Colette

A Collection of Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1950s)

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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.

Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s he took up drawing—he had studied painting in the 1920s.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson “Generations”, East Sussex. Brighton, UK via

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Girl in Crowd Wearing Pearls, Velodrome d’Hiver via

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Colette and Her Companion, 1952 via

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Bullfighters, Pamplona, July 1952 via

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Women in Traditional Dress of Brittany (Bretagne) via

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Woman Shopping with Children, Lourdes, 1958 via

Amazing Belle Epoque Photos by Henri Manuel

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Henri Manuel (1874 – 1947 was a Parisian photographer who served as the official photographer of the French government from 1914 to 1944.

In 1900, Manuel opened a portrait studio in Paris with his brother Gaston, which specialised in portraitphotography. Manuel quickly became renowned as a photographer of people from the worlds of politics, art and sports, as well as a photographer of art and architecture. Soon his portraits were used by news agencies, and in 1910 Manuel’s studio began providing a commercial service to news agencies for photographs known as “l’Agence universelle de reportage Henri Manuel”.

The studio became the largest photographic studio in Paris and a leading centre where young aspiring photographers such as Thérèse Bonney might go to work.

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Sarah Bernhardt by Henri Manuel via

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Genevieve Lantelme by Henri Manuel via

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Régina Badet by Henri Manuel, c. 1910 via

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Marie Curie in her laboratoire, 1912 via

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Denise Poiret by Henri Manuel, 1910s via

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Colette by Henri Manuel, 1900s via

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Fashion photograph by Henri Manuel, 1895 via