Along with Robert Capa and several others, he founded the cooperative Magnum Photos, was a master of candid photography who conceived of the goal of photography as the capture of the 'decisive moment.' His most famous photograph, an encapsulation of his philosophy, shows a man leaping from a ladder over a puddle behind the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris.

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1. Along with Robert Capa and several others, he founded the cooperative Magnum Photos, was a master of candid photography who conceived of the goal of photography as the capture of the 'decisive moment.' His most famous photograph, an encapsulation of his philosophy, shows a man leaping from a ladder over a puddle behind the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris.