born Aug. 22, 1908, Chanteloup, Fr.
died Aug. 3, 2004, Céreste
French photographer.
He studied art in Paris and literature and painting at the University of Cambridge. His interest in photography developed 0441; 1930 when he encountered the works of Eugène Atget and Man Ray . He is known for spontaneous, sequential images in still photography, a technique inspired by his enthusiasm for filmmaking. He helped establish photojournalism as an art form and with Robert Capa , David Seymour, and others founded the cooperative Magnum Photos (1947). The best known of his many collections is The Decisive Moment (1952).