Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was a French photographer and a pioneer of photojournalism--along with photographers Walker Evans, Brassaï, André Kertész. In spring 1947 together with Robert Capa, David Seymour, William Vandivert and George Rodger he founded Magnum Photos agency.
Works
Dressed-up women, with popular flower print patterns, eat ice cream, a Russian custom, during an intermission at the Moscow circus, 1954
Hockey Game (Stanley Cup). Inside locker room after game. Montreal, Canada, 1965
The Bowery, New York, 1947
Bastille Day, Paris, ca. 1936
Spectators at soccer match, ca. 1954
The Berlin Wall, Berlin 1962
Eunuch of the imperial court of the last dynasty, Peking, 1949
Dieppe, France, 1926
Saul Steinberg, 1946
The construction of the Berlin Wall, 1962
The construction of the Berlin Wall, 1962
Truman Capote, 1947
Jefferson Davis Day, Virginia, 1962
Mexico, 1964
New England, July 4, 1947
New York, 1947
Sale of gold in the last days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai, China, 1949
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Literature
- Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987, ARG. Catalogue for the 1987 exhibition.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, premières photos: de l'objectif hasardeux au hasard objectif, trans. Pierre Leyris, Paris: Arthaud, 1991. (French)
- Tete-a-tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Little, Brown and Company, 1998. With an Introduction by E.H. Gombrich.
