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7 reviews

Thames & Hudson, 2006

a worthy addition to your library
I recently purchased this book, as well as Cartier-Bresson's books about Paris and Mexico, and as much as I like the other two books, I think that this is definitely the best of the three books. Whereas the subjects of the other two books are of more of an artistic or sociological nature, the subjects of this book are primarily political in nature. Cartier-Bresson was in India in 1947 (as well as ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer

3 reviews
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bulfinch, 1992

Beautiful!
This is a beautiful book of duotones of Cartier-Bresson's work. It features the most famous photographs Henri has ever photographed and because it was excellently printed, you can truly feel the images with such intensity. This is a definite book to own if you love Henri's work.

A Propos De Paris

11 reviews
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Schirmer Mosel Verlag Gmbh***

Amazing!
As my favourite photographer, Cartier-Bresson has some kind of impayable discernment. His gallery of Paris is his magnum opus. His Leica, his 50mm lens, his mysterious face... all made him a monumental legend. I bought this gallery (hardcover) in 1995 for the price of $US 50 in Hong Kong. What are you waiting for? Just click it and buy it immediately, you will never regret buying this book.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook

5 reviews
Michel Frizot

Thames & Hudson, 2007

Process of Selection
I have liked HCB for about six years. I first saw his picture where a man, caught in mid-air,jumps across a puddle. I still think that this is one of the best photographs ever made. In the scrapbook, the reader gets to see the many different shots, that made up the bundle from which one image got selected to be published. While quite a few of the images not selected have their own charm, the ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexican Notebooks 1934-1964

3 reviews
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cartier-Bresson Bresson

Thames & Hudson, 1996

Mexico uncovered
There is a consistant light which runs through Cartier-Bresson's work. It is the late afternoon light or the early morning glow, that enters his leica. We see it in the streets, behind the waitress in the Mexican bar as she leans unknowingly towards Cartier-Bresson's lens. It's surrounded by this light that Cartier-Bresson feels most at home, even in Mexico. Mexican notebooks is full of all ...

The Galveston That Was (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities, No 5)

4 reviews
Howard Barnstone

Texas A&M University Press, 1999

Beautiful photos; fascinating history
The city of Galveston, Texas was a vibrant, prosperous port at the start of the 20th century, outstripping even New Orleans. Fine Victorian homes were built by prosperous merchants, many in grand style. The deadly hurricane of 1900 dealt the city a blow from which it never entirely recovered. But Galveston's economic slump had a silver lining -- as shown in "The Galveston That Was." There ...

Walker Evans & Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photograph America
Jean-Francois Chevrier

Steidl & Partners, 2008

Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson belonged to the same generation and shared an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Their photographs were exhibited together in 1935 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and for 18 brief months--between 1946 and 1947--they were both working in the U.S. while Cartier-Bresson was preparing his show at The Museum of Modern Art. At the time, Evans had already published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with James ...

Presumed Innocence

1 review
Anne Higonnet, Rachel Lafo

DeCordova Museum, 2008

...Found Otherwise
Spanning several continents and encompassing nearly the entire history of photography, Presumed Innocence examines the other side of childhood through the eyes of some of the most notable photographers in the history of the art. Not too surprisingly from the title, the outlook leans towards the bleaker side, with many of the youths pictured appearing wise, worldly, and sometimes merely old beyond ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography)

8 reviews

Aperture, 1997

A True Master
If Cartier-Bresson did not invent the art of 35mm street photography, he certainly brought it to the attention of other serious photographers and the public. Trained as a painter, his eye for composition was unerring, but it was his instinct for the defining human gesture--that he termed "the decisive moment"--that made him one of the immortals of photographic history. As one of the founding ...

The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

8 reviews

Aperture, 1999

An Apologia For Intuition
Yes, this is a small book, and, possibly too much of it is taken up in verbal bouquets tossed to old friends, tourist information about side-trips to various countries, and practical advice to would-be photojournalists. But those asides aren't the guts of this wonderful book. The important message from this man, who without question was the most influential photographer of the twentieth ...

The Human Face of Europe

Hill And Wang, 1962

Large octavo volume. Cover is boards covered by glazed photographic paper and cloth. Originally in a printed slipcase which is missing. This volume is consists of photographs from the exhibition "The Human Face of Europe", an international exhibition assembled in 1960 by Dr. Tas Toth, featuring world-famous as well as unknown photographers. Includes work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Thomas Hopker, etc. A Terra Majica book.

New York
Francoise Sagan

Editions Tel, 1956

Black and white photography book. Features such photographers as Ernst Haas & Henri Cartier-Bresson. Text entirely in French.

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