The definitive biography of the greatest photographer of modern times - a vital addition to the library of everyone with an interest in photography. The twentieth century was that of the image, and the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in 1908, was the eye of the century. His life story and the interpretation of his work reveal first and foremost the history of a vision. He was always on the spot, the great opportunist, seizing life's historic events as they happened. As he traversed the century, his eclectic eye focused on the fascination of Africa in the 1920s, the tragic fate of the Spanish Republicans, the Liberation of Paris, the weariness of Gandhi a few hours before his assassination, and the victory of the Chinese communists. He was assistant to Jean Renoir on three major films, and one of the founders of Magnum, the most famous of all photographers- agencies. It was he who fixed forever the features of famous contemporaries: Mauriac mysteriously levitating; Gi
