Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered the father of modern photojournalism and a master of candid photography. An early adopter of the 35 mm format, he helped develop the 'street photography' or 'real life reportage' style that has influenced generations of photographers. His work is characterized by an intuitive capture of the decisive moment and an elegant sense of composition, elevating documentary photography to an art form.
This edition showcases a landmark photobook that has significantly influenced the genre throughout the twentieth century. It highlights the evolution of photographic art and its cultural impact, making it essential for both enthusiasts and scholars. The book features a curated selection of images that exemplify the pivotal moments in photography, reflecting the artistic vision and historical context of its time.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was "the eye of the 20th century" and one of the world's most acclaimed photographers. Paris was his home, on and off, for most of his life and the photographs he took of the city and its people are some of his most recognizable and beloved images. In this volume are 160 photographs taken from a career lasting more than fifty years. Mostly in black and white, this selection reveals the strong influence of pioneering documentary photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) on Cartier-Bresson, and the clear visual links with surrealism that infused his early pictures. After an apprenticeship with cubist painter André Lhote in 1932, Cartier-Bresson bought his first Leica, a small portable camera that allowed him to capture the movement and rhythms of daily life in Paris. Camera in hand, Cartier-Bresson observed the Liberation from the Nazis in August 1944 from close quarters and the civil disturbances of May 1968. For decades he also thrived in capturing native Parisians going about their lives in the city, as well as photographing celebrated artists, writers, politicians, and anonymous citizens
The book offers a comprehensive exploration of Henri Cartier-Bresson's career through his "Master Set," a curated selection of 385 significant photographs chosen by the artist himself in the 1970s. Accompanied by personal selections from renowned figures like Annie Leibovitz and Wim Wenders, the volume showcases diverse interpretations of Cartier-Bresson's work. It is divided into two parts: individual curator choices with accompanying texts and the complete Master Set, providing an authoritative panorama of his artistic legacy.
'Henri Cartier-Bresson - Photographer is the crowning publication of an illustrious career. The foreword by Yves Bonnefoy discusses Cartier-Bresson's creative process, and Cartier-Bresson himself selected all the images for this summation of his finest work. Using the finest quality double impression offset printing and large-scale one-to-a-page presentation, all the famous photographs are here in these pages, alongside recent, less familiar work. In each classic image, the moment is eternal and compassion spills from the frame
One of the most famous books in the history of photography, this volume assembles Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 2004) was perhaps the finest and most influential image maker of the twentieth century, and his portraits are among his best-known work. Over a fifty-year period, he photographed some of the most eminent personalities of the era, as well as ordinary people, chosen as subjects because of their striking and unusual features. Originally published to coincide with an exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, this book features both well-known images and previously unpublished portraits: Ezra Pound, Andre Breton, Martin Luther King, Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, Susan Sontag, Carl Jung, William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe, Henri Matisse, and many more. Each photograph was chosen because it perfectly embodies Cartier-Bresson 's description of what he was attempting to communicate in his work: Above all I look for an inner silence. I seek to translate the personality and not an expression. The portraits reproduced here discreet, without artifice confirm once more the singular gift of Cartier-Bresson, who instinctively knew in which revealing fraction of a second to click the shutter.
In 1946, Cartier-Bresson traveled to New York with 300 prints, created a scrapbook, and presented it to MoMA's curators. This book is a facsimile of that iconic scrapbook.
'À Propos de Paris' presents the photographer's personal selection of more than 130 of his best photographs of Paris, taken over more than 50 years and reaching far beyond the clichés of tourism and popular myth.
Over the last half century Henri Cartier-Bresson has photographed some of the most famous icons of the twentieth century, those few people among millions whose images pass into history. Tete a Tete is a remarkable arrangement of his most memorable portraits, including Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, Marilyn Monroe, Lucien Freud, William Faulkner, Robert Kennedy, Che Guevara, Martin Luther King Jr., Coco Chanel, and the Dalai Lama. Beyond these famous names there are also anonymous portraits, chosen for their striking and unusual features, and a selection of pencil drawings, including a self-portrait. Cartier-Bresson supervised the design of the book and the juxtaposition of all the photographs. The result is a distinguished collection of his work, diverse in its range of extraordinary and ordinary personalities from the 1930s to the 1990s. Tete a Tete reveals Cartier-Bresson as a photographer who is as skillful in recording the subtleties of the individual portrait as he is renowned for his masterful ability to capture the decisive moment.
