Exhibit: Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson - Photo Essays - TIME.
Summary of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Cartier-Bresson's work spanned photographic genres for the entirety of his long career. He is regarded as a pioneer of candid and street photography but he is also well-known for having produced some of the most compelling photographic portraits of notables ranging from Jean-Paul Sartre and Leonard Bernstein to Marilyn Monroe and Malcolm X.
Cartier-Bresson's photo essay The Great Leap Forward, China, 1958 documented the industrial revolution of China under the communist rule of Mao Tse-Tung. The photos were unelaborated, simple depictions of people at work or in the street, accompanied by captions which were specified their actions and their place in the greater scheme of the revolution.
Agnes Sire has been director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson for 15 years, having previously worked for Magnum for 20 years.Joining the Foundation in its earliest days, Sire worked on building the archive with esteemed photo editor and publisher Robert Delpire.Sire knows Henri Cartier-Bresson’s practice inside out, and here, she gives a pit-stop tour through the defining.
About Henri Cartier-Bresson Candidly capturing fleeting moments of beauty among the seemingly ordinary happenings of daily life, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work is intuitive and observational. Initially influenced by the Surrealists’ “aimless walks of discovery,” he began shooting on his Leica while traveling through Europe in 1932, revealing the hidden drama and idiosyncrasy in the.
Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson 1 Henri Cartier-Bresson 2 BIO. Born 1908, Died 2004; French Street Photographer; Father of Modern Photojournalism; Became very inspired by the work of Martin Munkacsi He left art school and his dreams of being a painter, picked up a camera and became a street photographer. Served as a corporal in the film and.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004) is perhaps the greatest photographer of the twentieth century. In a career spanning over sixty years, he has used his camera as an impassive and neutral third eye to capture the vagaries of human behaviour and to produce some of the most memorable and compelling photographs ever published.
Presented for the first time in English, this volume brings together twelve notable interviews and conversations with Henri Cartier-Bresson carried out between 1951 and 1998. While many of us are acquainted with his images, there are so few texts available by Cartier-Bresson on his photographic process. These verbal, primary accounts capture the spirit of the master photographer and serve as a.