ART WITHOUT ART - Henri Cartier-Bresson
For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was just one of many ways of exercising his intelligence of the world, of creating an "imaginary from nature". This "tool" has always remained linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, inserts photography into an original symbolic framework that crowns a profound reflection, invalidating the distinctions proper to Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual exercise and artistic activity. The photographer-archer 33 thus becomes a master of the moment, practicing "art without art".
Henri Cartier-Bresson brought his ethics to reportage, making the photographer the Lord of Occasion, the Master of Coincidence. Then, the knots he so vividly wove over time with the photographic tool will be patiently re-knotted with drawing.
By presenting the paintings, drawings and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson to the public, this book offers a fresh look at both his work and the art of the photojournalists he claimed to be.
Published by Flammaron, 2007.
Jean-Pierre Montier / Edited by Yves Bonnefoy (author)
33 cm x 24 cm, 320 pages, very good condition
ISBN 978-2081208100
For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was just one of many ways of exercising his intelligence of the world, of creating an "imaginary from nature". This "tool" has always remained linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, inserts photography into an original symbolic framework that crowns a profound reflection, invalidating the distinctions proper to Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual exercise and artistic activity. The photographer-archer 33 thus becomes a master of the moment, practicing "art without art".
Henri Cartier-Bresson brought his ethics to reportage, making the photographer the Lord of Occasion, the Master of Coincidence. Then, the knots he so vividly wove over time with the photographic tool will be patiently re-knotted with drawing.
By presenting the paintings, drawings and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson to the public, this book offers a fresh look at both his work and the art of the photojournalists he claimed to be.
Published by Flammaron, 2007.
Jean-Pierre Montier / Edited by Yves Bonnefoy (author)
33 cm x 24 cm, 320 pages, very good condition
ISBN 978-2081208100
For Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography was just one of many ways of exercising his intelligence of the world, of creating an "imaginary from nature". This "tool" has always remained linked to his primary practice of painting and drawing.
The art of Zen archery, to which he refers, inserts photography into an original symbolic framework that crowns a profound reflection, invalidating the distinctions proper to Western culture between physical discipline, spiritual exercise and artistic activity. The photographer-archer 33 thus becomes a master of the moment, practicing "art without art".
Henri Cartier-Bresson brought his ethics to reportage, making the photographer the Lord of Occasion, the Master of Coincidence. Then, the knots he so vividly wove over time with the photographic tool will be patiently re-knotted with drawing.
By presenting the paintings, drawings and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson to the public, this book offers a fresh look at both his work and the art of the photojournalists he claimed to be.
Published by Flammaron, 2007.
Jean-Pierre Montier / Edited by Yves Bonnefoy (author)
33 cm x 24 cm, 320 pages, very good condition
ISBN 978-2081208100
