Henri Cartier-Bresson Libri

Personaggio divenuto mitico suo malgrado, Henri Cartier-Bresson ha segnato con un'impronta personale il mondo della fotografia con un rigore d'analisi e un rapporto tra forma e contenuto che non ammette quasi altro modo per esprimere un fatto, descrivere un paesaggio, realizzare un ritratto. Il patrimonio delle sue immagini rappresenta ormai una pietra miliare: non si può essere fotografi senza rapportarsi, per imitazione, contrapposizione o proselitismo, con la sua opera. Sinonimo egli stesso del termine "fotografia", che ha arricchito di teoria non meno che di folgoranti esempi pratici, ci offre in questo libro 60 delle sue migliori immagini, introdotte da un profondo testo critico di Jean Clair.

One of the most famous books in the history of photography, this volume assembles Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years.

Tls review 5/1/98, Transl. fr/French, Pub. 1st in UK by Thames & Hudson, Exhib. catalog.

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.

'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

"Striking images of a land renowned for its contradictions and variety as viewed by one of the great artists of our century."— Houston PostHenri Cartier-Bresson's record of his fascination with India over half a lifetime contains the very best of his photographs of that country. Beginning in 1947 at the time of Independence and produced during six extended visits over a twenty-year period, these beautiful, dramatic images are shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and for going to the heart of the matter.Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary gifts of observation and his famous "mantle of invisibility," as well as his good connections with Jawaharlal Nehru and others, allowed him to capture the quintessence of India. His pictures of Hindus in refugee camps after the Partition or beggars in Calcutta speak with the same passion and authority as those of the Maharaja of Baroda's sumptuous birthday celebrations or of the Mountbattens on the steps of Government House. Ample space is given to his famous reportages, such as the astonishing sequence on the death and cremation of Gandhi. But above all, it is the apparently ordinary faces and scenes from market, temple, or countryside that have the power to put us in direct touch with the spirit of a country and its people. 105 duotone illustrations.

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 (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.