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Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World - A Retrospective
Auhor: Peter Galassi, Philippe Arbaizar, Jean Clair
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Reviewer: Duncan Walker
Rating (out of 10): 10
Review:
The late great Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the finest image makers of our time. Born in 1908, he studied painting before embarking on a career in photography in the 1930s. In 1940 he was captured by the Germans and spent three years in prisoner-of-war camps before escaping to join the Paris underground. With Robert Capa, David Seymour and others, he founded the photographic agency Magnum in 1947.
This retrospective covers the full body of his work, including not only some of his most famous photographs, but also his illustrations and an analysis of his lesser know cinema work.
The photographs in this book depict life from around the globe, from Europe to the Americas and the Far East. Each photograph is a frozen moment, capturing the life of ordinary people, often in the most extraordinary of times. And each images tells a story that could fill be pages of a thousand novels.
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