CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/22/2020

Celebrate the 112th birthday of Henri Cartier-Bresson with 'Le Grand Jeu'!

Featured spreads are reproduced from Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu, Marsilio's highly anticipated new release featuring Cartier-Bresson's "master set" of photographs, presented for the first time alongside selections by Annie Leibovitz, Wim Wenders and others. Leibovitz, who chose the photographs on both spreads here, writes, "Seeing Cartier-Bresson’s work made me want to become a photographer. I was a young painting student at the San Francisco Art Institute when I looked at The World of Cartier-Bresson, which had just been published. Maybe it was something about the word 'world,' as well as the pictures, that seduced me. The idea that a photographer could travel with a camera to different places, see how other people lived, make looking a mission—that that could be your life was an amazing, thrilling idea…"