Henri Cartier-Bresson :the modern century

A new career retrospective of the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson including rare and unpublished work. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work embraced art, politics, revolution, and war. But mo ...

A new career retrospective of the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson including rare and unpublished work. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s work embraced art, politics, revolution, and war. But more powerful than any of these overarching themes was his evident concern for the human individual at every social level. This lavishly illustrated monograph published to accompany France’s first major retrospective since the photographer’s death in 2004 traces Cartier-Bresson’s development as a photographer, activist, journalist, and artist. In addition to some of Cartier-Bresson’s best-known photographs, included here are many seldom seen or unpublished images and some rarities in color as well as black-and-white.