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This is Paris In 32 postcards

This is Paris In 32 postcards

"Paris is not a city, it's a country," King Francis I once said. Paris, one of the most famous capitals in the world, is indeed a world unto itself.

The quintessence of Paris is shown through 32 of the most beautiful photographs by Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson, Depardon, Doisneau, Erwitt, Kertész, Ronis... ...
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Characteristics

Number of illustrations :
32
Museum :
Grand Palais
Theme :
Paris
Dimensions :
13,4 × 17,1 × 1,6 cm
Artist :
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Art movement :
20th century
EAN :
9782711873982
Size of the book :
Others
Reference :
GB107398

Editor

Diffusor :
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor :
EDITIONS FLAMMARION

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The artist

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

"I walked all day long, with a tense mind, trying to take pictures in the streets, as if caught red-handed. ". Henri Cartier-Bresson. Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 and died in 2004 at the age of 95, he is a major figure of photography in 20th century. The genius of his compositions and his art of capturing the "decisive moment", made him famous. Close to the surrealist movement at its beginnings, Cartier-Bresson is above all a traveller and a reporter who immortalised the history of his time, from the liberation of Paris to the last hours of Gandhi, passing through decolonisation and the Cold War. The artist was also politically involved with the Communist Party, he was an activist and worked for the Communist press. In 1947 he created the Magnum agency, a cooperative photographic agency where the greatest photographers of the years to come would work.