IMAGES À LA SAUVETTE - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Published in 1952 by Editions Verve, on the initiative of Tériade, it brings together the photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson during the first twenty years of his career. It is a monograph of the best of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work, published by an art publisher, with an original cover by Matisse.
"Strictly speaking a monograph of Cartier-Bresson's best work, but it has overriding unifying factors that elevate it into one of the greatest of all photobooks." (Parr/Badger).
" Magazines end up as French fry cones. Books remain " (Henri Cartier-Bresson).
" There is nothing in this world without a decisive moment " (Cardinal de Retz).
It's also a wide-ranging presentation of his art, forging the notion of the "decisive moment" that gave the American edition of the book its title: the moment when all the elements come together to produce an image, not the culmination of an action, but an emotional and formal peak, as illustrated by the famous photograph of a man jumping over a puddle on the Pont de l'Europe, with the Gare St Lazare in the background. This book remains an essential reference for many photographers.
Published by Verve, 1952
154 pages
36 × 27cm
Published in 1952 by Editions Verve, on the initiative of Tériade, it brings together the photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson during the first twenty years of his career. It is a monograph of the best of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work, published by an art publisher, with an original cover by Matisse.
"Strictly speaking a monograph of Cartier-Bresson's best work, but it has overriding unifying factors that elevate it into one of the greatest of all photobooks." (Parr/Badger).
" Magazines end up as French fry cones. Books remain " (Henri Cartier-Bresson).
" There is nothing in this world without a decisive moment " (Cardinal de Retz).
It's also a wide-ranging presentation of his art, forging the notion of the "decisive moment" that gave the American edition of the book its title: the moment when all the elements come together to produce an image, not the culmination of an action, but an emotional and formal peak, as illustrated by the famous photograph of a man jumping over a puddle on the Pont de l'Europe, with the Gare St Lazare in the background. This book remains an essential reference for many photographers.
Published by Verve, 1952
154 pages
36 × 27cm
Published in 1952 by Editions Verve, on the initiative of Tériade, it brings together the photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson during the first twenty years of his career. It is a monograph of the best of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work, published by an art publisher, with an original cover by Matisse.
"Strictly speaking a monograph of Cartier-Bresson's best work, but it has overriding unifying factors that elevate it into one of the greatest of all photobooks." (Parr/Badger).
" Magazines end up as French fry cones. Books remain " (Henri Cartier-Bresson).
" There is nothing in this world without a decisive moment " (Cardinal de Retz).
It's also a wide-ranging presentation of his art, forging the notion of the "decisive moment" that gave the American edition of the book its title: the moment when all the elements come together to produce an image, not the culmination of an action, but an emotional and formal peak, as illustrated by the famous photograph of a man jumping over a puddle on the Pont de l'Europe, with the Gare St Lazare in the background. This book remains an essential reference for many photographers.
Published by Verve, 1952
154 pages
36 × 27cm
