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`This little book reminds of the prodigious talent that produced many of the 20th century'
--The Independent
--The Independent
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (19082004) 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 consummate skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes.This volume, introduced by Michael Brenson, includes selections from his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico and pre-revolutionary China.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This little book is what expected to be: a collection of Cartier-Bresson's photos. It does not contain all, but a huge representative quantity, and quality as well.
If you'd like to have an idea of what a photographer did, this is your collection. It is a paperback edition, what means that it is cheap.
Highly recommended.
If you'd like to have an idea of what a photographer did, this is your collection. It is a paperback edition, what means that it is cheap.
Highly recommended.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Small but a photo on every page-few words, apart from n introduction. The photos do the talking
Nice quality paper and stitched pages give it a subtle, well made feel.
I bought the original run of this series some years back. The covers were gloss lamintated, black with a photo insert. So this is a redesign of a popular series on the masters/pioneers and early creatives.
Recommended
Nice quality paper and stitched pages give it a subtle, well made feel.
I bought the original run of this series some years back. The covers were gloss lamintated, black with a photo insert. So this is a redesign of a popular series on the masters/pioneers and early creatives.
Recommended
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Nice little collection
8 Jan 2005
Format:Hardcover
This collection is a nice, compact, and inexpensive sample of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. I would have prefered the book to be a little larger to allow for bigger pictures. The print quality is decent. I was disappointed that my favorite photograph by him, the one of the bicyclist going by the staircase entitled "Hyères, France", was absent.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A True Master
5 Oct 2005
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
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 members of Magnum, he changed the way we think of photographs and the way we see the world. This book is an introduction to his work. As such, it's all too short, but the economical format makes it possible to see a few decent examples of his work and perhaps to inspire further study. He was a true master of the art.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Best of Bresson
25 Jun 2006
Format:Hardcover
A lovely little book showing the most famous pictures of Henri Cartier-Bresson on 95 pages only. A must-have for the Cartier-Bresson fans or a great first book to have on this fabulous photographer.
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