Hiroji Kubota, Photographer – The New York Times

He did, however, accept a beat-up Leica M3 from Burri. His life changed when he got a first edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “The Decisive Moment” a month later. “When I opened it, I said, ‘My gosh, what is this?’ ” he recalled. “That motivated me. That’s when I became serious.” His fate was sealed when Burri showed him a Swiss magazine that featured his Gaucho pictures. “It shocked me like crazy,” he said. “I knew then I wanted to be a photographer.”