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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited

Hardback

Main Details

Title Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Anne de Mondenard
Edited by Agnes Sire
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 290,Width 240
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9780500545423
ClassificationsDewey:779.9944361081092
Audience
General
Illustrations 200 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 24 June 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Henri Cartier-Bresson was 'the eye of the 20th century' and one of the world's most acclaimed photographers. Paris was his home, on and off, for most of his life (1908-2004). The photographs he took of the city and its people manage to be both dreamlike and free of affectation. Here are around 160 photographs taken over a more than fifty-year career. Mostly in black and white, this selection reveals the strong influence on Cartier-Bresson of pioneering documentary photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927), and the clear visual links with Surrealism that infused Cartier-Bresson's early pictures. After an apprenticeship with Cubist painter Andre Lhote, in 1932 Cartier-Bresson bought his first Leica, a small portable camera that allowed him to capture movement and the rhythms of daily life in Paris. Cartier-Bresson observed from close quarters the Liberation in August 1944 and the civil disturbances of May 1968. In between he also succeeded in capturing the faces of Parisians in their natural habitat, celebrated artists and writers and citizens alike. Ever-attentive to different ways of portraying the city around him, Cartier-Bresson returned to drawing during the last two decades of his life. This collection is not only a superb portrait of Paris in the 20th century, it is testament to Cartier-Bresson's skill as a supreme observer of human life. With 200 illustrations

Author Biography

Anne de Mondenard is a photography historian and curator at the Musee Carnavalet. Agnes Sire has been the director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris since its creation in 2003. Peter Galassi is a scholar and curator whose principal fields are photography and 19th-century French art. He was Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art from 1991 to 2011.

Reviews

'Delightful ... a startlingly poignant insight into the French capital in wartime' - The Times, Photography Books of the Year 2021