The “Decisive Moment” (Cartier-Bresson, 1952) was coined by Henri Cartier-Bresson who is considered as one of the most important and influential practitioners of the “street-photography” genre. In his 1952 book by the same title, Cartier-Bresson, introduced to the world a more humanistic but also a more formal approach in his photographic vision. He has been credited with elevating documentary and journalistic photography to a new form of personal artistic expression.
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