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5 reviews

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 (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 ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer

4 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.

An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

7 reviews
Agnes Sire, Jean-Luc Nancy

Thames & Hudson, 2006

An eye that truly saw the inner silence . . .
As you browse the millions of photos available on Flickr and other web photo sharing sites, it is apparent that most people wielding a camera do not - cannot - aspire to the special talent of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Renowned for capturing the "decisive moment," Cartier-Bresson was also a highly skilled portraitist. Ninety-seven of his portraints appear here accompanied by one mercifully short ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Propos de Paris

11 reviews
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bulfinch, 1998

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.

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 ...

Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)

5 reviews

Cinematheque, 1999

fine compilation of writings on bresson
last year i recieved one of the best christmas presents i could ask for: this book. while i wouldnt recommend it to anyone that isnt a bresson fan it holds plenty to mull over for those that are. while a few of the articles are dull and/or pretentious more often than not they are highly illuminating as to the director's methods. there are one or two articles devoted to each of his films and a few ...

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 ...

Transcendental Style In Film (Da Capo Paperback)

4 reviews
Paul Schrader

Da Capo Press, 1988

a simple and great book
Paul Schrader tells us what transcendental/transcendent means and what's transcendental style in movies. He tells all that information in a simple style and gives important analyses from Ozu's, Bresson's and Dreyer's films..

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World: A Retrospective

14 reviews
Peter Galassi, Jean Clair, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2006

A must if HCB is your cup of tea!
I put off buying this book as long as I could and eventually I did, having in the meantime manhandled book store copies. It is difficult to get too much HCB and this offers a lot in one package. I take minor exception to HCB as elevating photography to art -- he is more often described as someone who turned his hobby into an art form, albeit it was a hobby informed by artisitic sensibility. ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson in India

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 ...

Street Photography: From Atget to Cartier-Bresson

1 review
Clive Scott

I. B. Tauris, 2007

extremely thorough
this is extremely thorough if not slightly wordy opus. While reading, it gave the impression of a major paper written for peer review. On the downside I felt that it was not overtly aimed toward the "layperson" photographer. If I were to be in a place to ask, I would also wish for more photographic illustrations. However it is well worth plowing through for its insights into street photog as ...

Robert Capa: Photographs

4 reviews
Robert Capa

Aperture, 2001

Pure empathy
Ordinary people caught under extraordinary circumstances are what give these images the power that they have and elicit pure empathy from the viewer. Robert Capa earned his place in photographic history and left behind a body of work for us to consider...

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 ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Biography

4 reviews
Pierre Assouline

Thames & Hudson, 2005

A misunderstood book.
This book has been somewhat unfairly reviewed. I have just read this fine book from cover to cover. Whilst I found it worthy of 4 stars, I have to agree that it has some weaknesses. - The book really should have some of the photos to which the text often refers. - The author has assumed that readers have a good knowledge of Henri and his work. It is not a perfect book, BUT it is a ...

Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film

2 reviews
Joseph Cunneen

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004

The Definitive Brisson
"Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film" by Joseph Cunneen is a much-needed introduction to a master film director. Cunneen, long-time movie critic for the "National Catholic Reporter," approaches Bresson's career in a way that easily explains the director's distinctive approach to cinematography. Bresson rejects the artificiality and dependence of "photographed theater" with it's reliance ...

Discoveries: Henri Cartier-Bresson (Discoveries (Abrams))
Clement Cheroux

Abrams, 2008

Born in 1908 in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. Early on he adopted the versatile 35mm format and helped develop the popular “street photography” style, influencing generations of photographers that followed. In his own words, he expressed that “the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, ...

An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of ...
James Burke, Gerard Goodrow, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001

This new collection is proof that new ways of telling the history of photography still exist. Featuring a selection of works from the very personal collection of Cologne-based connoisseur Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim, An American in Europe experiences the development of photography in the 20th century not in a chronological fashion, but according to genre: from portraits, to landscapes, to architectural photography, to still lifes, to fashion ...

Notes on the Cinematographer (Green Integer)

9 reviews
Robert Bresson

Green Integer, 1997

Must have for any non-Hollywood Style Filmmakers
If you want a step by step, how to make film book, you're better off browsing the bookstore at your local film school. If you are a novice filmmaker, and you want to make art with film or video, and you want a guidebook on how to THINK and FEEL about your chosen art form, this is a must. Bresson inspired the French New Wave filmmakers, and in my opinion was one of the few directors this world has ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photofile) (Photofile)

Thames & Hudson, 2006

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) studied painting before taking up photography in his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency Magnum (together with Robert Capa and others), he is best known for the skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes. This volume includes his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico, and pre-revolutionary China.It shows clearly how, for Cartier-Bresson, art is an ...

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