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Fantástico libro de fotografías que recoge muchas de sus épocas como fotógrafo.
Fotos de Barcelona,Madrid,Valencia,Paris.Berlin....
Una auténtica maravilla.
Si te gusta la fotografía,no debes dejar escapar este libro
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A great retrospective of his incredible photography. I just got it for Xmas and LOVE it!
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I really dont`t know how people can give 5 stars to this book. It`s clear that they don`t know nothing about photography books. It is true that in this book you can see almost all bresson`s photographs but you`ll see many of them in a small size. If I payed 47.25 for this book I expect to receive quality and not a lot of photographies printed in two pages (For me the concept of printing an image in two pages is unacceptable). There isn't a selection of the work in this book. I prefer a book with less photographs but well printed than this book where you have lots of images but in bad print. After spending a lot of money in this book try another of Bresson`s books. Surelly you`ll get better quality for less price.
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there are so many wonderful photographs in this book ,you can find out what you want to save from Henri Cartier-Bresson, and you can also find out what he,the brilliant man, wants to show the whole world with his camera,with his heart.you must be love it.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, a man who elevated photography to an art form, is known for successfully capturing "decisive," but elusive, moments on film - photographs taken at the instant when "visual harmony and human significance coalesce." His famous photograph of a man jumping over a puddle ("Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932") illustrates this concept perfectly. Perhaps Cartier-Bresson's unique gift for combining the plastic arts with the images he saw through the camera's lens was acquired through his early training as a painter in his native France.
A renowned photojournalist, he began his career in 1931 and purchased his first Leica in 1932. He was one of the first to shoot in the 35 mm format, and was an innovator of the "street photography" which was to influence generations of photographers. During his decades long career he worked all over the world and photographed such luminaries as Matisse, Picasso, Coco Chanel, Truman Capote, and Gandhi. His interest in the visual arts also extended to cinema - he made films with Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker and André Zvoboda and a documentary on Republican Spain (1937). In 1947 Cartier-Bresson co-founded the photographic cooperative Magnum along with fellow photographers Robert Capa, George Rodger, David Seymour and Bill Vandivert.
Cartier-Bresson retired from photography in 1973 to return to painting, and his first love, drawing. He once said in an interview, "Photography is a sketchbook. Drawing is meditation."
Henri Cartier-Bresson died on August 3, 2004 in Paris. He left behind a photographic record of the world, mid-20th century. He will probably be best remembered, however, as an artist who had tremendous insight into ordinary people and the extraordinary ability to capture fleeting emotion on their faces. Some of his best photographs, I think, include: girls in Bali preparing to dance; a prisoner thrusting a fist and leg out of his cell door; children peeping over the Berlin Wall - in fact, all his spontaneous pictures of children; old priests awaiting midnight Mass in Italy; the funeral of an old Kabuki actor, a captivating portrait of Henri Matisse; lovers kissing at a Paris cafe; and exquisite landscapes and cityscapes, worldwide.
"Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World: A Retrospective" was published in honor of the artist's 95th birthday. An enormous selection of photographs is offered here, more than 600 reproductions, film stills, paintings and drawings on fine heavy art paper, taken over a period of fifty years. These images represent the best of his life's work. Fascinating essays by art and photography critics are included in the volume.
Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote. "A velvet hand, a hawk's eye - these we should all have." This man was blessed with both the hand and the eye. The photographs reproduced here are the result of that gift.
JANA
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