Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson is a photographer who was born in 1908 who went though out his life taking pictures. Bressons work is all in black and white as he was using film. He takes lots of candid photos of people , so the picture is taken when people are not aware of it being taken. The pictures are taken in France, as this is where Bresson was born.  The pictures show lots of every day life activity and events which shows how personal and ordinary the pictures are. This is because they  are just ordinary people who you can relate to.

This picture is one of his and it shows a family having a picnic by the river. It shows what people view the french as, setting out time to eat. Having wine at luck time. And its a relaxed atmosphere as the men have there jackets off. This gives a every day mood and feel. It is a landscape picture. As it was candid it means that he would have taken it quickly. 
As an observer you are drawn to look, like we all do in this situation, and we feel its okay to look due to there backs being turned so they wont notice.

If i use this artist I am going to have to manage to get the candid view of people, and manage to take pictures of them. I wont make mine black and white as i feel that the reason his are like that is because he had to, and there was no other option but it adds the old feel to the pictures but the ideas they portray are still relevant to the modern day.