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The decisive moment
Images à la sauvette. English
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"Strictly speaking, The Decisive Moment is a monograph of Cartier-Bresson's best work, but it has overriding unifying factors that elevate it into a great photobook. The first is the concept of the...
"Strictly speaking, The Decisive Moment is a monograph of Cartier-Bresson's best work, but it has overriding unifying factors that elevate it into a great photobook. The first is the concept of the 'decisive moment' itself, which defines the elegance of Cartier-Bresson's imagery: the instant when all the elements in the picture-frame come together to make the perfect image--not the peak of action necessarily, but the formal peak ... No one achieved it more often or better, but allied with it was Cartier-Bresson's thoroughly clear-eyed view of the world--astute, non-sentimental, beautiful, profound. Crucially, for all their formal grace, his pictures are distinguished by his humanist view of life."--The Photobook : A History Volume I / Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London : Phaidon, 2004.
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- Creator
- photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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- English
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- New York : Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Éditions Verve of Paris, [1952]
- ©1952
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- 20 unnumbered pages, 125 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 37 cm
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- ocm06557867, ocm06557867
- "This book, with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs from the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The French edition by Verve (Images à la sauvette) and the American edition ... were conceived and composed by Tériade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. The engraving and printing is the work of the master printers Draeger frères of Paris. It was completed the 22nd of July, 1952"--Colophon.
- "Captions" (duplicates of those in text) : 12 unnumbered pages laid in.
- Foreword / by Cartier-Bresson -- At beginning of book: Photographs of the Occident, nos. 1 thru 63 -- Captions for Occidental section -- In middle of book: Photographs of the Orient, nos. 64 thru 126 -- Captions for Oriental section -- A technical report to photographers / by Richard L. Simon