Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photoportraits (English and French Edition)

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From Publishers Weekly From the 50-year career of an artist without peer, these spontaneous studies portray in his unique manner more than 250 subjects both great and unknown"never from a formal point of view," writes de Mandiargues, a close friend. He speaks in his preface of "summer lighting," a kind of shock of kinship linking the photographer to his subject. But there is irony, too, and a brooding commentary on the human passion"nearly always an enigma is posed." We see a well-fed and tranquil Malcolm X, a dubious Stravinsky, a puttering Arthur Miller, a fatherly Charles DeGaulle, the Windsors clearly in love, Harry Truman with the old fire now far behind his eyes. A remarkable collection. November 4Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more From Library Journal Cartier-Bresson began shooting in Eu rope in 1930 and went round the world with his Leica, testifying to the tragic, the farcical, and the tender in human existence. These handsome duotone photographs give us one splendid as pect of the power of his lens. The 255 images, mostly full-page, show the fam ous and the anonymous. Perceptive rather than pretty, the portaits seek not to flatter but to catch the humanity of the subjects, many of them French. These include writers, painters, scien tists, musicians, politicians, actors, di rectors, and men, women, and children caught on the street corner, in a parade, at work, or at play or table, in bed or bar. A fine sampling of what to Cartier- Bresson is not simply a craft but a call ing. Milton Meltzer, New YorkCopyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more Language Notes Text: English, French (translation) Read more

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