Cartier Bresson China

Cartier Bresson China

Paris the most beautiful city in the world, was captured and frozen in time by the great master of photojournalism, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who brought beauty and a new dimension to an ordinary street scene. Photography, he once wrote is a spontaneous impulse which comes from perpetually looking, and which seizes the instant and its eternity.

Henri elevated "snap shooting" to the level of a refined and disciplined art. He exclusively used the Leica 35mm rangefinder cameras equipped with normal 50mm lenses or occasionally a telephoto for landscapes. He was one of the first photographers to shoot in the 35mm format and helped to develop the photojournalistic "street photography" style that influenced generations of photographers to come. He was the father of "the decisive moment," when everything in a picture was entirely balanced.

He often spoke of the geometry of photography. "Change your position by a millimetre and the geometry changes," he said. "This cannot be calculated but needs to be instinctive, when I start thinking, everything's lost. What counts in a shot is its plenitude and its simplicity."

During his boyhood, Henri experimented with a 3 X 4 view camera. However, his main interest lay in painting. When he was 19, he went to study painting with Andre Lhote, the Cubist master. There he learned about angles, walls and the way things tilt. His still-lifes and Paris street scenes are indicative of his subtle and sensitive eye for composition.

In 1931, at the age of 22, Cartier-Bresson spent a year as a hunter in the West African bush. Catching a case of backwater fever, he returned to France to convalesce. It was at this time, in Marseille, that he first truly discovered photography. He obtained a Leica and began snapping a few pictures, and within a decade, he was famous. "The only thing about photography that interests me is the aim, the taking aim." "Nothing is lost," he says. "All that you have ever seen is always with you."

After World War II, he resumed his career as a photojournalist and helped form the Magnum picture agency in 1947. Assignments for major magazines would take him on global travels, across Europe and the United States, to India, Russia and China. Many books of Cartier-Bresson photographs were published in the 50's and 60's, the most famous being 'The Decisive Moment' (1952). A major milestone in his career was a massive, 400-print retrospective exhibition, which toured the United States in 1960.

As a journalist, Henri Cartier-Bresson felt an intense need to communicate what he thought and felt about what he saw, and while his pictures often were subtle, they were rarely obscure. He had a high respect for the discipline of press photography, of having to communicate a story meaningfully in one picture. His journalistic grappling with the realities of men and events, his sense of news and history, and his belief in the social role of photography all pushed his work beyond the usual boundaries.

His work and his approach have exercised a profound and far-reaching influence. His pictures and picture essays have been published in most of the world's major magazines during three decades, and Cartier-Bresson prints have hung in the leading art museums of the United States and Europe (his monumental 'The Decisive Moment' show being the first photographic exhibit ever to be displayed in the halls of the Louvre.)

No one captured the language of Paris so profoundly. The incredible grace and movement he bestowed on all his subjects, his attention to detail and powers of observation all came together in one 'defining moment.' Photographs of men in bowler hats, the abattoir workers, the lovers, the drunks, the refugees, the tarts, the judges, the picnickers, the animals and the kids. "Not art," he once commented when someone referred to him as an artist, "just gut reactions to moments happened on."

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Henri Cartier-bresson $20.72 A visual analysis of the life and work of the Magnum photography agency co-founder best known for his ability to capture fleeting scenes with a camera includes key examples of his work in Europe, America, and pre-revolutionary China. Original.

Henri Cartier-Bresson in India $44.97 Cartier-Bresson produced these remarkable photographs during six extended visits to India, beginning in the 1940s and extending to 1987. Included are images of refugees and beggars, the Maharaja`s lavish birthday party, Lord Mountbatten, and--some of Cartier-Bresson`s most celebrated photographs--Gandhi`s death and cremation.

Henri Cartier-bresson (Hardcover) $113.47 Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this is the first major publication to make full use of the extensive holdings of the Fondation Cartier-Bresson--including thousands of prints and a vast resource of documents relating to the photographer`s life and work. The heart of the book surveys Cartier-Bresson`s career through 300 photographs divided into 12 chapters. A wide-ranging essay by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum, offers an entirely new understanding of Cartier-Bresson`s extraordinary career and its overlapping contexts of journalism and art.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (Paperback) $65.31 A richly illustrated retrospective of the critically acclaimed work of the master photographer honors the ninety-fifth birthday of Cartier-Bresson with a collection of some of his finest works, representing all periods of his life, along with a selection of drawings, paintings, film stills, and previously unpublished photographs. Reprint.

Henri Cartier Bresson $34.39 Rated: NASynopsis: Henri Cartier-Bresson may be considered the father of modern photojournalism, but he was not solely a photographer. Several documentaries he shot between the 1930s and the 1970s bear witness to his affection for the cinema, a medium that he sees as 'an alternative to photography in the way it sees the world and captures its movement.' This lavish collector's edition includes: a series of documentaries about the artist, which allows us to (re)discover his powerful and rare photographic work; five major works directed by Cartier-Bresson himself; and a 24-page illustrated collectible book containing criticism of his work as well as reproductions of his legendary photographs.

Gold Distribution, Shanghai, China, 1949 $31.99 Henri Cartier-Bresson Gold Distribution, Shanghai, China, 1949 - Art Print

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Collector`s Edition (DVD) $72.12 "Always, Cartier-Bresson had an eye on the exotic embedded in the everyday." -- Grade: B+

Henri Cartier-Bresson $190.28 A retrospective of the renowned photographer`s work includes such classics as the picnic on the Marne, Mattisse holding a dove and a sketchbook, prostitutes in Barcelona, plus more recent but less well known works.

Henri Cartier-Bresson : Photographer $106.25 No Synopsis Available

Henri Cartier Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (DVD) $64 Acclaimed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is the focus of this documentary, which takes a look at the innovative work of the man who is regarded as the inventor of photojournalism. Among the many personalities who offer opinions about the artist and his photographs--which stretch from the Spanish Civil War to the liberation of Paris from the Nazis--are Arthur Miller and Isabelle Huppert.

Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson Wearing Hat and Holding Camera Up to His Face $79.99 Dmitri Kessel Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson Wearing Hat and Holding Camera Up to His Face - Premium Photographic Print

Henri Cartier-Bresson : Mexican Notebooks $29.2 No Synopsis Available

Inner Silence : The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson $34.08 No Synopsis Available

Sifnos, Grece $12.99 Henri Cartier-Bresson Sifnos, Grece - Art Print

Paris, c.1952 $32.99 Henri Cartier-Bresson Paris, c.1952 - Art Print

Village Baby $19.99 Henri Cartier-Bresson Village Baby - Art Print

Inside China $11.99 Exotic China has always attracted great photographers, and its history has yielded unforgettable scenes. Inside China unveils fascinating archival images rarely made public: Luminaries Henri Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud portray the old order and the ascendancy of Chairman Mao; Chinese news photographer Li Zhensheng gives startling new insight into the harsh Cultural Revolution. Today's China, filled with excitement and fraught with challenge, is captured by contemporary photographers including Mark Leong, Paolo Pellegrin, and Mark Henley - who, with privileged access, depict fashionable youth and glamour, the development of mega-industry, and new materialism alongside traditional religion and rural life, revealing the rapidly changing scene in all its complexity. Five renowned experts on China - Jonathan Spence, James Watt, James MacGregor, Elizabeth Economy, and Minxin Pei - narrate and enrich the story with informative, thought-provoking essays.

Queen Charlotte's Ball, 1959 $23.99 Henri Cartier-Bresson Queen Charlotte's Ball, 1959 - Art Print

Punjab, India, 1948 $209.99 Henri Cartier-Bresson Punjab, India, 1948 - Framed Art Print