Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson’s The Aperture History of Photography is an excellent collection of photos taken between 1934 and 1968 with an emotional range that few will ever attain. They are portraits of humanity that should be witnessed. As Cartier-Bresson says: ‘As far as I’m concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one’s own originality. It is a way of life’.
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John Malloy Friday 1 February 2008
I LOVE his work. Great to see. Did you know he was originally a painter? Btw, if anyone is interested in more, including an intense photo-journal of his time spent in 1940′s communist China, one of my clients has a few reasonably priced first editions – http://www.royalbooks.com.
Hunter Peroff Friday 18 September 2009
I’m currently working through James Ravilious’ An English Eye, which is his appropriation of Cartier-Bresson’s work, but for the very day-to-day of English Devon. Bresson’s next on my photojournalism catalogue…