HENRI CARTIER

In December 1948, Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to China at the request of Life magazine. He stayed for ten months and captured so me of the mostspectacular moments in Chinas history: he photographed Beijing in the last days of the Kuomintang, and then headed back to Shanghai, where he bore witness to the new regimes takeover. Then, in 1958, Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the first West ern photographers to go back to China to explore the changes that had occurred over the preceding decade.