"Since then, Cartier-Bresson has taken some 15,000 rolls of black-and-white film."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/magic-moments-93...
"He shot thousands upon thousands of rolls of film at 36 exposures a roll, meticulously numbering each roll before sending it off to be developed a process he had no interest in by magazines or photo agencies."
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09cartier.htm...
With digital we can all make thousands of images without some third-party paying for film and processing, or being independently wealthy.