Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Henri Cartier-Bresson. Aperture Masters of Photography. Number Two.

Aperture, 1976, 1987. Wraps, fine except some light fading near spine on rear cover. 95 pages. Essay by Henri Cartier-Bresson.  Includes many of his most renowned photographs taken in Spain, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, India, et al.  :Back of the book includes list of photos, bibliography, chronology. exhibitions, and films.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was a master French photographer widely considered the father of modern photojournalism and a pioneer of candid, street-style photography. Trained initially in painting and heavily influenced by Surrealism, he adopted the compact, 35mm handheld Leica camera in the early 1930s, using its mobility to capture fleeting human interactions and geometric harmony without intrusion or post-production cropping. In 1947, after surviving a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, he co-founded the legendary cooperative agency Magnum Photos alongside Robert Capa and David Seymour, covering monumental global events such as Gandhi's funeral, the fall of Beijing to communist forces, and post-war Europe. His philosophy of the "decisive moment"—the precise instant when visual elements and emotional meaning align into a unified form—became the foundational ethos of 20th-century street photography, leaving a lasting impact on photojournalism and fine art before he returned to drawing and painting in his later years.