The traveling exhibit highlighting the work of photographer Cartier-Bresson will end its visit to the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco on January 31, 2011- “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century”. 
“An innovative artist, trailblazing photojournalist, and quintessential world traveler, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks among the most accomplished and original figures in the history of photography. His inventive images of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of the medium, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment.” This major retrospective offers a fresh look at Cartier-Bresson’s entire career, revealing him as one of the great portraitists of the 20th century and one of its keenest observers of the global theater of human affairs.”
Cartier-Bresson describing the “decisive moment” in photography:
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms [as they are perceived visually] which give that event its proper expression.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century – Until January 30, 2011
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA – SF MOMA
(Images: Hyeres, 1932 and Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948)