This is one of my favorite photographs. I remember learning about it in high school. Cartier-Bresson was after the "decisive moment." We, all of us, live in this moment. Even when we don't know it. It is an image of the tragi-comic that Cornel West writes about so eloquently. It is beautiful.

"Behind the Gare St.-Lazare, Paris." 1932, Henri Cartier-Bresson