Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Robert Capa, Marc Riboud, Inge Morath, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Felice Beato, Tadahiko Hayashi, Ihei Kimura, Pierre Rossier, Bloody Saturday, Michael Wolf, Homer Sykes, John Thomson, Vincent Mentzel, Fosco Maraini, Shigeichi Nagano, Peter Turnley, Brian Brake, Sidney D. Gamble, Hiroji Kubota, Hiroshi Suga, Kineo Kuwabara, Ho Fan, Eve Arnold, Eva Sandberg, Negretti and Zambra, Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, Donald Mennie, William Saunders, Noriyoshi Shibata, Hedda Morrison, Auguste Francois, China Lucky Film, Orrin Freeman, John Papillon, Dutton & Michaels. Excerpt: Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France, the oldest of five children. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, whose Cartier-Bresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. His mother's family were cotton merchants and landowners from Normandy, where he spent part of his childhood. The Cartier-Bresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, near the Europe Bridge. They were able to provide him with financial support to develop his interests in photography in a more independent manner than many of his contemporaries. Cartier-Bresson also sketched in his spare time. He described his family as "socialist Catholics." As a young boy, Cartier-Bresson owned a Box Brownie, using it for taking holiday snapshots; he later experimented with a 3x4 inch view camera. He was raised in a traditional French bourgeois fashion, required to address his parents using the formal vous...