CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri

About the French photographer, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)

Henri CARTIER-BRESSON was a French photographer, director, actor, draftsman, painter and co-founder of the Magnum photo agency. When photographing, he attached great importance to the most perfect possible image composition. In 1947 he founded the Magnum Photos agency in New York with Robert CAPA, David SEYMOUR and George RODGER. In 1972 he quit professional photography and devoted himself intensively to the art of drawing. Born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne (northern French region of Ile-de-France), Henri CARTIER-BRESSON died on August 3, 2004 in Montjustin, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

A selection of photo books by or with works by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON

'The Decisive Moment / Images a la Sauvette' (1952/2014); 'Soviet Union. Photographische Notizen '(1975/1982); 'America' (1996); 'Europeans' (1998, 2002, 2009); 'The Eye of the Century' (2003); 'Scrapbook' (2006); 'An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson' (2006); 'Henri Cartier-Bresson & Paul Strand. Mexique 1932-1934 '(2012); 'The Photographs: The Main Works Selected by the Artist' (2016); 'Madrid' (by Magnum photographers, 2020); 'Man redet immer zu viel' (You always talk too much, 2020); 'Photographer' (2020)

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Photographer
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Photographer
This monograph on Magnum agency co-founder Henri CARTIER-BRESSON is about the decisive moment, humility and humanity in his work. The images reproduced in black and white range from the earliest works to landscape photographs from the 1970s.
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Mirror Mirror. Portugal as seen by MAGNUM Photographers (by Christoph Renard)
Mirror Mirror. Portugal as seen by MAGNUM Photographers (by Christoph Renard)
The out-of-print catalog 'Mirror Mirror. Portugal as seen by Magnum photographers' was published on the occasion of the 2004 exhibition in Lisbon. A look at Portugal from the 1950s to the present through the eyes of thirteen leading Magnum photographers.
Specification
  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Magnum
  • Format: HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 20 x 2 cm., 120 pp., richly color & b/w illustrated, English
78,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Sowjetunion. Photographische Notizen
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Sowjetunion. Photographische Notizen
The b/w illustrated book 'Soviet Union. Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic notes' contains scenes from everyday life and the world of work in factories, shops & offices in Leningrad, Moscow, USSR, Estonia, Caucasus & Central Asia - geographically sorted
Specification
  • Book design: Jacques MAILLOT
  • Format: Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 24,5 x 27 x 2 cm., 180 S., 141 S/W-Abb., 1,200 gr., deutsch-sprachig - TEXT ONLY IN GERMAN!
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Watch! Watch! Watch!
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Watch! Watch! Watch!
The book 'Watch! Watch! Watch!' for the huge retrospective of Henri CARTIER-BRESSON in Germany presents early, surrealist-influenced photographic and film works & reportages or celebrity portraits as well as people in everyday life, at work or at leisure.
49,90 € * Weight 1.2 kg
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Man redet immer zu viel. Gespräche 1951-1998
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Man redet immer zu viel. Gespräche 1951-1998
Photo & text book 'Man redet immer zu viel' (You always talk too much) contains twelve interviews with Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from almost fifty years. In view of the flood of secondary literature, he provides authentic information about his life and work.
Specification
  • Format: Gebundene Ausgabe, 11,5 x 19 cm., 160 S., S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
24,80 € * Weight 0.4 kg
Hinter der Kamera. Das Leben der grossen Fotografen
Hinter der Kamera. Das Leben der grossen Fotografen
In German language 'Hinter der Kamera', Juliet Hacking portrays 38 of the most important personalities in the history of photography. By working out contexts, the portraits add to an overview of great innovations, trends and developments in photography.
Specification
  • Format: Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 20 x 25,5 x 3 cm., 304 S., S/W- & Farb-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text, 1.300 gr., - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
24,80 € * Weight 1.3 kg
The Open Road
The Open Road
With works by Robert FRANK, Garry WINOGRAND, Joel STERNFELD, William EGGLESTON, Alec SOTH, Victor BURGIN, Taino ONORATO & Nico KREBS and many more
Specification
  • Ed(s)/Author(s): David Campany
  • Format: HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 30 cm., 336 pp., highly b/w & color illustrated, text language: English
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Die frühen Photographien
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Die frühen Photographien
The up to then little researched early work by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from the 1930s was the subject of an exhibition at MoMA in New York in 1987. The volume of the catalog with a well-founded text by Peter Galassi is still regarded as authoritative today.
Specification
  • Format: Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag, 26,5 x 25,5 x 2 cm., 152 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Inquiry for the English Ed. here on request!
78,00 € Weight 1.1 kg More information
Zeitblende. Fünf Jahrzehnte MAGNUM-Photographie
Zeitblende. Fünf Jahrzehnte MAGNUM-Photographie
The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Die Photographien
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Die Photographien
The volume 'Photographien', compiled by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON himself, combines the highlights of a life in the service of photojournalism and photographic art - the very combination for which it has repeatedly set new standards since the 1930s.
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