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This lavishly illustrated monograph published to accompany Frances first major retrospective since the photographers death in 2004 traces Cartier-Bresson's development as a photographer, activist, journalist and artist. In addition to some of Cartier-Bresson's best-known photographs, included here are many seldom seen or unpublished images and some rarities in colour as well as black-and-white. From his earliest photographs in Paris in the 1920s and Africa in the 1930s, Cartier-Bresson's capacity to conjure coherence and harmony out of a chaotic world appears effortless and innate a deep-centred attitude rather than a merely learned technique. His observations of the effects of poverty and revolution around the world led directly to his pioneering photojournalism and to his co-founding of Magnum Photos. He became renowned for his penetrating portraits of the most prominent figures of his time, becoming, in the words of his biographer Pierre Assouline, the eye of the century.

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Book category Books in English The arts Photography & photographs Individual photographers

• Full title: Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Author: Clement Chéroux
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780500544303
• ISBN: 0500544301
• ID: 02226386
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Weight: 2638 g
• Dimensions: 301 × 252 × 42 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. March 2014

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