Let’s dig into ten historical heavyweights who truly left their mark on street photography, changing it forever. Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in 1908 in France, was actually a painter before he got into photography. He studied painting under Cubist artist André Lhote, which gave him a foundation in composition and perspective that heavily influenced his photographic work. His big breakthrough came in the 1930s when he picked up a Leica camera and decided