Henri Cartier-Bresson's Photograph

​Origin
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and conceived of photography as capturing a decisive moment. His work has influenced many photographers. He became inspired by a 1930 photograph by Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkacsi showing three naked young African boys, caught in near-silhouette, running into the surf of Lake Tanganyika. Titled Three Boys at Lake Tanganyika, this captured the freedom, grace and spontaneity of their movement and their joy at being alive. That photograph inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant." As he also once said, "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression."

​Effects
This photograph will always randomly display candid events, though typically they relate to those who are or have been in close proximity to it recently.

​Trivia

 * While Cartier-Bresson worked exclusively in black and white, other than a few unsuccessful attempts in color, the photograph accidentally came into contact with leaves the leaves of Johann Baptist Isenring’s Acacia Tree and has since been permanently colored.
 * Due to its possible proximity-based ability, it tends to display Warehouse agents out on the field no matter the distance.
 * Artie keeps it in his office mostly to make sure agents are safe just in case he does not have his Farnsworth. Although he typically has it with him at all times, he still keeps the photo in his office out of habit.
 * This artifact was first seen in the episode "For The Team."