Henri CARTIER BRESSON
Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, arguably the most significant photographer of the twentieth-century, and one of the founding members of Magnum Photos. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. As an early user of 35mm film, Cartier-Bresson's humane, spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism as an art form. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to photography, initiated modern photojournalism, and influenced countless followers.
Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, 1932
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Gelatin Silver Print, printed later
9.5 x 14 inches (image size)
12 x 16 inches (paper size)
Signed in ink on recto below image.
Photographer's copyright blind stamp lower left margin.
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.”
Cartier Bresson
“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
Hyeres, France, 1932
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Gelatin Silver Print, printed later
9.5 x 14 inches (image size)
12 x 16 inches (paper size)
Signed in ink on recto below image.
Photographer's copyright blind stamp lower left margin.
Siphnos, Greece, 1961
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Gelatin silver print, printed later
9 3/8 x 14 inches
Signed and embossed photographer's copyright credit.
“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Last Days of the Kuomintang (market crash), Shanghai, China, 1948-49
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Gelatin Silver Print, printed later
9.5 x 14 inches (image size)
12 x 16 inches (paper size)
Signed in ink on recto below image.
Photographer's copyright blind stamp lower left margin.
Peking, China, 1948-49 (Tea Ceremony)
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Gelatin Silver Print, printed before 1973
9.5 x 14 inches (image size)
12 x 16 inches (paper size)
Signed in ink on recto below image.
Quai St. Bernard, Paris, 1932
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Gelatin Silver Print, printed later
11.5 x 17.5 inches (image size)
16 x 20 inches (paper size)
Signed in ink on recto below image.
Photographer's copyright blind stamp lower left margin.
“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
