An artist who relied on both spontaneity and what his own eye tells him, Henri Cartier Bresson detested cropping. To prevent his editors from liberally cropping his pictures, Henri Cartier Bresson sent his pictures with a black border—the frame he himself imposed at the instant he snapped the picture. Considering this, it is very ironic that the jumping man picture that he is best remembered for was one of only two pictures he cropped.
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