Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment: 2006 (Wall) Calendar

Henri Cartier-Bresson set out to be a painter; the medium he settled upon, and especially the attitude he brought to his pursuit of it, could hardly be farther from painting. No revisions, no second thoughts, no additions of a tree or person for balance: Cartier-Bresson’s eye, his intuition, and his razor reflexes captured perfect compositions in a fraction of a second. The photographs reproduced here, taken in Palermo, Sarajevo, London, New York, and elsewhere, reveal the extraordinary hidden in the everyday.