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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: 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. ...

An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

6 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: 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.

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: 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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography)

6 reviews

Aperture, 2005

Visualizing the Common Qualities!
Review Summary: This book is a brilliant expansion of M. Cartier-Bresson's 1955 show designed to emphasize the similarities that exist from country to country throughout Europe in the way people live together. M. Jean Clair has done a marvelous job of adding earlier and more recent images to extend and magnify this theme. As a result you will see an "unquestionable family likeness" for the ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind's Eye

8 reviews

Aperture, 2005

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 ...

Presumed Innocence
Anne Higonnet, Rachel Lafo

DeCordova Museum, 2008

From Ansel Adams' harrowing 1940s documentary photographs of transient migrant workers' children to Sally Mann's simultaneously erotic and innocent portraits of her adolescent children and other pre- and post-pubescent girls, images of children have fascinated and frustrated viewers since the inception of the medium. This excellent collection of vintage and contemporary photographs, spanning from the early twentieth century until now, covers all ...

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 ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson And Alberto Giacometti: La Decision De L'oeil / The Decision Of The Eye

Scalo Publishers, 2005

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) became friends in the mid-1930s in Paris. Both were seeking a way out of surrealism that would lead back to reality. Giacometti returned to life studies, Cartier-Bresson exchanged his brush for a camera. The content of this volume revolves around the many mutual resonances in the work of these two great artists. The book opens with shots of Giacometti taken by Cartier-Bresson ...

Elsie's War
Frank Dabba Smith, Elsie Kuhn-Leitz

Frances Lincoln, 2003

A follow-up to My Secret Camera, this photographic testimony for children is the inspiring story of Elsie Kuhn-Leitz, a member of the wealthy "Leica camera" family, who risked everything in order to help those who were being persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. The Gestapo found out about Elsie's activities, then she was torn from her children and imprisoned in dreadful conditions. The book tells a story of courage and self-sacrifice ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson

2 reviews
Peter Galassi

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987

wonderful, early work by a master photographer
I love this book. I have owned it for a long time, having purchased it more than 15 years ago. I ordered it without knowing terribly much about his work or the book itself. The examples of his early work presented here are magnificent. The publication quality is very high. The book and the images within it are quite beautiful. It presents his earliest work using a Leica camera in Europe ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fazal Sheikh: Ladli

Steidl & Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, 2007

In India it costs a poor family 50 rupees to hire a midwife to oversee the birth of a child. For an additional 10 rupees, the parents are assured that the birth of a girl will be met with an act of infanticide by the midwife. The alternative for many is an institution like the Delhi orphanage, in which Fazal Sheikh's work on the predicament of the girl-child in India begins--and 99 percent of that orphanage's population are girls. Girl Child ...

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 ...

Tête á Tête (Tete a Tete)

5 reviews
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bulfinch, 1998

The BEST portraits in the world
If you are interested in portraits, then this is the book you MUST look at. It contains the best portraits ever made. Just get it, it can only enrich your life.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues, Vera Feyder

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1998

Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph)

4 reviews
Richard Whelan

Aperture, 2005

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...

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