Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780905836423
ISBN number: 0905836421
Label: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Manufacturer: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Page Count: 36
Printing Date: 1984-12
Publishing house: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Sale Popularity Level: 7011813
Studio: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
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Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals--as only a few great artists have done consistently--the richness, the sensibilities, and the varieties of the human experience in the twentieth century. This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer whose pictures 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 it is also utterly respectful of his subjects. In his wide travels throughout the world, he has captured universal meanings through the glimpses into the lives of individuals in scores of countries. Each photograph is in itself a masterpiece of dramatic form; taken together, Cartier-Bresson's works constitute a personal history of epic scope.
Henri Cartier-Bresson presents forty-two of the artist's photographs, each recognized a a masterpiece of the medium. In addition, Cartier-Bresson offers a brief statement of his own artistic ethos, his striving for the spontaneity through intuition that imbues his work.
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Cartier Bresson is one of my two favorite photographers (Minor White is the other). This small book of his prints is a wonderful thing to have in my house, and to share with my friends.
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It's a great collection of classic work of HCB. Surprisely, some the pictures are named "untitled" in HCB's Paris book, but they have title name along with some descriptions. Good intro to HCB!
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A lovely little book showing the most famous pictures of Henri Cartier-Bresson on 95 pages only. A must-have for the Cartier-Bresson fans or a great very first book to have on this fabulous photographer.
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If Cartier-Bresson did not invent the art of 35mm street photography, he certainly brought it to the attention of other serious photographers and the public. Trained as a painter, his eye for composition was unerring, but it was his instinct for the defining human gesture--that he termed "the decisive moment"--that made him one of the immortals of photographic history. As one of the founding members of Magnum, he changed the way we think of photographs and the way we see the world. This book is an introduction to his work. As such, it's all too short, but the economical format make it possible to see a few decent examples of his work and perhaps to inspire further study. He was a true master of the art.
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This collection is a nice, compact, and inexpensive sample of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. I would have prefered the book to be a little larger to allow for bigger pictures. The print quality is decent. I was disappointed that my favorite photograph by him, the one of the bicyclist going by the staircase entitled "Hyères, France", was absent.
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