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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


"It seems to me that the notion of the artist comes from the bourgeoisie of the nineteenth century. Every sensitive human being is potentially an artist. Then comes concentration, etc, etc.,--Mozart and Haydn were domestic employees. As for photo-reporters, wejust keep a log."
Henri Cartier-Bresson, excerpted from MoMA's major retrospective catalogue, The Modern Century.

     

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu

MARSILIO
Edited by Matthieu Humery. Text by Javier Cercas, Sylvie Aubenas, Annie Leibovitz, François Pinault, Wim Wenders.

Cartier-Bresson by Cartier-Bresson: the photographer’s “master set” survey of his career, presented for the first time alongside selections by Annie Leibovitz, Wim Wenders and others

Hbk, 10.25 x 12.5 in. / 352 pgs / 650 duotone. | 8/25/2020 | Out of stock
$65.00


Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment

STEIDL
Text by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Simon, Clément Chéroux.

One of the most important photobooks of the 20th century, scrupulously reproduced as a facsimille of the original

Slip, Hbk, 11 x 14.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 2/24/2015 | Out of stock
$125.00


Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Text by Peter Galassi.

Offers an entirely new understanding of the photographer's extraordinary career and its overlapping contexts of journalism and art

Clth, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 376 pgs / 75 color / 360 duotone. | 4/30/2010 | In stock
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand JeuHenri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu

Published by Marsilio.
Edited by Matthieu Humery. Text by Javier Cercas, Sylvie Aubenas, Annie Leibovitz, François Pinault, Wim Wenders.

In the early 1970s, at the request of his friends and collectors John and Dominique Menil, Henri Cartier-Bresson went through the thousands of prints in his archives with the idea of choosing the most important and significant works of his career. He picked 385 photographs, which were printed in a format of 12 x 16 inches at his most trusted laboratory in Paris between 1972 and 1973, in five copies each. This so-called “Master Set” has never before been published in its entirety.

Now, photographer Annie Leibovitz, film director Wim Wenders, writer Javier Cercas, chief curator of the Department of Prints and Photographs at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Sylvie Aubenas and collector François Pinault have been invited to each choose roughly 50 pictures from this Master Set. Through their selection, each of them shares a personal vision of the work of this great artist.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu is divided into two parts: the first presents the personal choice of each of the curators, accompanied by a text written for the occasion; the second presents the whole of the Master Set as it was assembled by Cartier-Bresson. This unprecedented volume thus constitutes the most personal, and indeed the most authoritative, panorama of his oeuvre yet published.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was born in Chantelou-en-Brie, France. He initially studied painting and began photographing in the 1930s. Cartier-Bresson cofounded Magnum in 1947. In the late 1960s he returned to his original passion, drawing. In 2003 Cartier-Bresson established the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, one year before his death.



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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Aperture Masters of PhotographyHenri Cartier-Bresson: Aperture Masters of Photography

Published by Aperture.
Introduction and text by Clément Chéroux.

With this publication Aperture presents an elegantly updated and refreshed edition of the classic Henri Cartier-Bresson volume in the Aperture Masters of Photography series. With an introduction by notable curator Clément Chéroux, this edition includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chronology of this influential and iconic artist's life. Initially presented as the History of Photography series in 1976, the first volume of the Masters of Photography series featured Cartier-Bresson and was edited by legendary French publisher Robert Delpire, who cofounded the series with Aperture's own Michael Hoffman. This redesigned and expanded version honors the selection of images from the original series, which Cartier-Bresson himself created with Delpire, encapsulating the spontaneity and intuition for which this legendary photographer is so celebrated.

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Aperture

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Hardcover, 8 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 43 duotone.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive MomentHenri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment

Published by Steidl.
Text by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Simon, Clément Chéroux.

Within the canon of European photography books it would be difficult to find one more famous, revered and influential as Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment, wrote Jeffrey Ladd in Time LightBox, in a feature on Steidl's new edition of this ultimate photobook classic. Originally published in 1952, this collection of Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years was embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. The book has since influenced generations of photographers, while its English title defined the notion of the famous peak in which all elements in the photographic frame accumulate to form the perfect image—not the moment of the height of the action, necessarily, but the formal, visual peak. This new publication—the first and only reprint since the original 1952 edition—is a meticulous facsimile of the original book that launched the artist to international fame, with an additional booklet on the history of The Decisive Moment by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was born in Chantelou-en-Brie, France. He initially studied painting and began photographing in the 1930s. Cartier-Bresson cofounded Magnum in 1947. In the late 1960s he returned to his original passion, drawing. In 2003 Cartier-Bresson established the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, one year before his death.



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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern CenturyHenri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Peter Galassi.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. Following World War II, he helped found the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. Cartier-Bresson would go on to produce major bodies of photographic reportage, capturing such events as China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, the United States in the postwar boom and Europe as its older cultures confronted modern realities. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this is the first major publication to make full use of the extensive holdings of the Fondation Cartier-Bresson—including thousands of prints and a vast resource of documents relating to the photographer's life and work. The heart of the book surveys Cartier-Bresson's career through 300 photographs divided into 12 chapters. While many of his most famous pictures are included, a great number of images will be unfamiliar even to specialists. A wide-ranging essay by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum, offers an entirely new understanding of Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary career and its overlapping contexts of journalism and art. The extensive supporting material—featuring detailed chronologies of the photographer's professional travels and of spreads of his picture stories as they appeared in magazines—will revolutionize the study of Cartier-Bresson's work.

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Henri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier-Bresson

Masters of Photography Series

Published by Aperture.
Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals--as only a few great artists have done--the variety and richness of human experience in the twentieth century. This second volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer who--with the new, smaller, hand-held cameras and faster films--defined the idea of “the decisive moment” in photography. Cartier-Bresson's imagery is intimate but utterly respectful of his subjects. In his travels throughout the world, he has captured glimpses of individual lives in scores of countries. Taken together, Cartier-Bresson's works constitute a personal history of epic scope.
This volume presents 42 of the artist's photographs, each recognized as a masterpiece of the medium. In addition, Cartier-Bresson offers a brief statement about what drives his work.

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