Henri Cartier-Bresson

by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500410607
• ISBN13: 9780500410608
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

A good book to introduce yourself to Henri Cartier-Bresson

I bought this book just to introduce me to Henri's works as a photographer. This showcased some of his masterpieces from the era he worked in. This is one of the best books you can buy to look into his works.

nice prints good overall quality

The prints are good, duotone indeed, in a nice glossy paper. It arrived soon enough.

Herni Cartier Bresson, Aperture Masters

Cartier Bresson is one of my two favorite photographers (Minor White is the other). This small book of his prints is a wonderful thing to have in my house, and to share with my friends.

Best of Bresson

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.

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 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 make 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.

Nice little collection

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.