Анри Картье-Брессон – лучшие книги

Анри Картье-Брессон - один из основателей современной фотографии, блестящий мастер фотожурналистики. Дневниковые записи, мемуары и эссе Анри Картье-Брессона, емкие и ясные, как его черно-белые снимки, содержат строгие правила фотосъемки и глубокие суждения о природе фотографии, выразительные описания стран и воспоминания о выдающихся современниках фотографа.

Это издание объединяет двенадцать интервью и бесед Картье-Брессона, относящихся к периоду с 1951 по 1998 год. В них раскрывается Картье-Брессон увлекательный и увлеченный. Он говорит о фотографии, размышляет о состоянии мира и огляды­вается на пройденный путь. Эти высказывания, относящиеся к отрезку времени длиною почти в полвека, позволяют также видеть эволюцию мысли фотографа: он возвращается к некоторым темам, меняет свою точку зрения, иногда противоречит себе. Так возникает не застывшая легенда, а напротив, очень живой образ Картье-Брессона - пожалуй, самого знаменитого фотографа XX века.

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography.

One of the most important photobooks of the 20th century, scrupulously reproduced as a facsimille of the original

Within the canon of European photography books it would be difficult to find one more famous, revered and influential as Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment, wrote Jeffrey Ladd in Time LightBox, in a feature on Steidl's new edition of this ultimate photobook classic. Originally published in 1952, this collection of Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years was embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. The book has since influenced generations of photographers, while its English title defined the notion of the famous peak in which all elements in the photographic frame accumulate to form the perfect image―not the moment of the height of the action, necessarily, but the formal, visual peak. This new publication―the first and only reprint since the original 1952 edition―is a meticulous facsimile of the original book that launched the artist to international fame, with an additional booklet on the history of The Decisive Moment by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was born in Chantelou-en-Brie, France. He initially studied painting and began photographing in the 1930s. Cartier-Bresson cofounded Magnum in 1947. In the late 1960s he returned to his original passion, drawing. In 2003 Cartier-Bresson established the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, one year before his death.

Henri Cartier-Bresson's record of his fascination with India over half a lifetime contains the very best of his photographs of that country. Beginning in 1947 at the time of Independence and produced during six extended visits over a twenty-year period, these beautiful, dramatic images are shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and for going to the heart of the matter.
Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary gifts of observation and his famous "mantle of invisibility," as well as his good connections with Jawaharlal Nehru and others, allowed him to capture the quintessence of India. His pictures of Hindus in refugee camps after the Partition or beggars in Calcutta speak with the same passion and authority as those of the Maharaja of Baroda's sumptuous birthday celebrations or of the Mountbattens on the steps of Government House. Ample space is given to his famous reportages, such as the astonishing sequence on the death and cremation of Gandhi. But above all, it is the apparently ordinary faces and scenes from market, temple, or countryside that have the power to put us in direct touch with the spirit of a country and its people.
105 duotone illustrations.
Foreword by Satyajit Ray.
Introduction by Yves Vequaud.

Paris - the city and its people - pervaded Henri Cartier-Bresson's work from the moment he exchanged his paintbrushes tor a camera in the 1920s, "A Propos de Paris" presents the photographer's personal selection of more than 130 of his best photographs of Paris, taken over fifty years, As ever, his vision transforms photojournalism into high art, revealing images of the city with a rare, dreamlike, almost crystalline clarity. He unfolds before our eyes a kind of intellectual reconstruction of Paris, reaching far beyond the cliches of tourism and popular myth, Accompanying texts by Vera Feyder and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues discuss the…

Анри Картье-Брессон (1908-2004) - один из основателей современной фотографии, блестящий мастер фотожурналистики. Дневниковые записи, мемуары и эссе Анри Картье-Брессона, емкие и ясные, как его черно-белые снимки, содержат строгие правила фотосъемки и глубокие суждения о природе фотографии, выразительные описания стран и воспоминания о выдающихся современниках фотографа.
Фотографии черно-белые.