Henri Cartier-Bresson
Subtitle: à propos de Paris
By: with texts by Vera Feyder and André Pieyre de Mandiargues written for the exhibition Paris à vue d'oeil.
Contributors: Feyder, Vera.; Pieyre de Mandiargues, André, 1909-
Edition: 1st North American ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston
Language: fre
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-; Photography, Artistic.
Description: Henri Cartier-Bresson, at eighty-six, is the old master of European photography. Paris - the city and its people - has pervaded his work ever since he first exchanged his paintbrushes for a camera, influenced by the Surrealist movement of the late 1920s. A propos de Paris presents the photographer's personal selection of more than 130 of his best photographs of Paris, taken over fifty years.

As ever, his vision transforms photojournalism into high art, revealing images of Paris with a rare, dreamlike, almost crystalline clarity. He unfolds before our eyes a kind of intellectual reconstruction of the city, reaching far beyond the cliches of tourism and popular myth. Accompanying texts by Vera Feyder and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues discuss the history of Cartier-Besson's engagement with the city and its place in his achievement.

This is a unique gallery of urban landscapes rendered by a great sensibility - Cartier-Besson's homage to the place perhaps closest to his heart.
Notes: "A Bulfinch Press book."