Henri Cartier-Bresson Hardcover Coffee Table Book

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. As only a few great artists have done consistently, he reveals the richness, the sensibilities, and the varieties of the human experience in the 20th century. This volume of Aperture’s Masters of Photography series confirms the genious of the photographer whose pictures with the new, smaller hand-held cameras and faster films defined the idea of “the decisive moment” in photography. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON presents forty-two of the artist’s photographs, each recognized as a masters of the medium. In addition, Cartier-Bresson offers a brief statement of his own artist ethos, his striving for the spontaneity through intuition that imbues his work.