Henri Cartier-Bresson (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

by Henri Cartier-Bresson (Actor)

Other, 2010

Genres

Art & Design

All Topics

Nonfiction

Status

Available

Call number

779.092

Series

Aperture Masters of Photography (2)

Collection

Your library

Publication

Arthouse Films (2010), Edition: Collector's Edition

Description

Aperture is pleased to present the elegantly updated and refreshed Henri Cartier-Bresson edition of the Aperture Masters of Photography Series. With an introduction by notable curator Clément Chéroux, this edition includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chronology of this influential and iconic artist's life. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume of the Masters of Photography Series featured Cartier-Bresson and was edited by legendary French publisher Robert Delpire, who cofounded the series with Aperture's own Michael Hoffman. In this redesigned and expanded version of the classic Aperture book, we have kept the majority of the selection of images from the original series which Cartier-Bresson himself created with Delpire, encapsulating the spontaneity and intuition for which this legendary photographer is so celebrated.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Tatoosh

Henri Cartier-Bresson is the French street photographer and photojournalist who popularized the concept of the decisive moment, but you will not find that information or almost any other information in the terse two-page. Instead, the book goes straight to a selection of his photographs. Place de

l’Europe, Behind Gare Saint Lazare (1932), the photograph that best epitomizes the concept appears here, as do Seville (1933) and Coronation of King George VI, London (1937), and Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced, Deportation Camp, Dessau, Germany (1945) among others. Readers wanting to know more about Cartier-Bresson will need to look elsewhere, but this book provides a quick overview of some of his most important works.

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