Henri Cartier-Bresson's last show arrives in Australia - 8 years late!

"To photograph is to hold one's breath," said Henri Cartier-Bresson. "It is aligning the head, the eye and the heart along the same line of sight."

Cartier-Bresson, who described his Leica camera as an extension of his eye, redefined photojournalism as an art-form with his concept 'The Decisive Moment' - the point when all elements collide to form a single, perfect, image.

"Photography is not like painting," he told the Washington Post in 1957. "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

The photographer's collection  - The Man, The Image & The World - is the last Cartier-Bresson oversaw before his death in 2004 and brings together history-defining moments, from the fall of Kuomintang in China, to snapshots of life behind the Iron Curtain in 1950s Soviet Russia. It has travelled through the northern hemisphere - from Paris to Edinburgh, Amsterdam to Milan, but never ventured south of the equator - until now. The exhibition has arrived in Brisbane, Australia and is on show at the Queensland Art Gallery until November 27.