The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

History of Photography Series. Directed by Jean-Marie Drot and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Black and white.

He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22 1908 – August 3 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism.