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Author Pieree Assouline / Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pages 386
Signed No
ISBN 9780500512234
Publisher Thames & Hudson
Publishing date 2005
Publishing place New York and London
Language English
Edition first edition
Binding Hardcover including dustjacket
Book condition Like New
Cover condition As new
Dimensions (cm hxb) 24x16
Through the decades, this eye focused on Africa in the 1920s, the tragic fate of the Spanish Republicans, and the victory of the Chinese Communists. It was Cartier-Bresson who fixed in our minds the features of his contemporaries: Giacometti and Sartre as characters from their own works; Mauriac mysteriously levitating; Faulkner, Matisse, Camus, and countless others captured at the decisive moment in portraits for eternity. An intensely private individual, Cartier-Bresson confided in his close friend Pierre Assouline over a number of years, even opening up his archives to him. Here, for the first time, we read about his youthful devotion to surrealism; his unending passion for drawing; the war and the prison camps; the friends and the women in his life. Assouline provides an acute and perceptive account of the life and philosophy of this icon of our times, and gives us an opportunity to reassess his contribution to twentieth-century photography and reportage. 23 illustrations.

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