Street Candid Photographyas an Art Form

Born: August 22, 1908

Died: August 3, 2004

Developed street / candid photography as an art form.

One of the first to use 35mm film.

Photojournalist

Helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed.

"The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... . In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif."

Focused on the new monarch's adoring subjects lining the London streets, and took no pictures of the king.

First made his name as a photojournalist.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.