“Henri Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century,” says Robert McFarlane. “From his earliest photographs, Cartier-Bresson captured life in flight, sometimes literally. In perhaps his most famous picture, ‘Behind the Gare St Lazare, Paris 1932’ a man leaps to the right, taking off from a wooden ladder lying in a shallow puddle near curved metallic debris. Cartier-Bresson’s reflexes are so precise his Leica’s shutter records the leap at the exact moment before the man’s right heel descends to the mirror-like surface of the water. It is a moment pregnant with possibilities and as if to add visual value, Cartier-Bresson’s camera records a poster in the background showing a dancer leaping in the opposing direction.”