Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Exhibition catalog

MX586849
WRITTEN IN FRENCH

Henri Cartier Bresson is certainly well known for his capacity to "catch the instant". His career is though very long and can be divided into different artistic phases demonstrating a wider and varied work.
There is not one Henri Cartier Bresson and the 2014 retrospective at Pompidou...
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Characteristics

Number of pages
400
Dimensions
30 x 25 cm
Artist
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Art movement
20th century
Number of illustrations
500
Museum
Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Pompidou
Theme
Photography
Reference
MX586849
EAN
9782844266286
Size of the book
Paperback with flap
Publication date
Novembre 2013

Babelio Reviews

4.68 / 5
Lismonde 2/20/14
Idéal pour entrer dans l'oeuvre de Cartier-Bresson, à lire avant ou plutôt après avoir vu la grande rétrospective qui vient de commencer au Centre Pompidou, car on y découvre des aspects très inattend...Read more...

The work and its 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.