The man who took this picture was named Henri Cattier Bresson. this picture was taken at a train station in 1933 and still to this day is known as one of the most amazing photo's of the century. it is told as the perfect desisve moment and some people speak of it as a story, at the time there was wars happening all over europe and then there is a man jumping into the unknown so some people said that the man jumping reminded them of europe. He also was the founder of street photography and spent most of his life taking pictures and writing journals. he was known as the godfather of photography. the camera that was used was called Leica and when it was released there wasnt many of them you had to have money to have one and fortunatly he did. the one he used for a majority of his life was a one lens 50mm.
