Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography

by Pierre Assouline

Book Overview

The twentieth century was the century of the image and Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was the eye of the century. Through the decades, this eye focused on Africa in the 1920s, the tragic fate of the Spanish Republicans, and the victory of the Chinese Communists. It was Cartier-Bresson who fixed in our minds the features of his contemporaries: Giacometti and Sartre as characters from their own works; Mauriac mysteriously levitating; Faulkner, Matisse,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050051223X
• ISBN13: 9780500512234
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"