French art student, was also in Africa on the Ivory Coast. This
picture was one of those that caught his attention, inspiring him
to put down his paint-brush on his return to France & devote
himself to photography. This was indeed a decisive moment
for photography, as he was to become one of the most
famous photographers of the twentieth century.
"the decisive moment, it is 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."
