Henri Cartier-Bresson
Subtitle: the modern century
By: Peter Galassi
Contributors: Galassi, Peter; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; High Museum of Art
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; Distributed in the US and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780870707780; 9780870707773
Other titles: Modern century
Description: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this is the first major publication to make full use of the extensive holdings of the Fondation Cartier-Bresson--including thousands of prints and a vast resource of documents relating to the photographer's life and work. The heart of the book surveys Cartier-Bresson's career through 300 photographs divided into 12 chapters. A wide-ranging essay by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum, offers an entirely new understanding of Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary career and its overlapping contexts of journalism and art.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Apr. 11-June 28, 2010; the Art Institute of Chicago, July 24-Oct. 3, 2010; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 30, 2010-Jan. 30, 2011; and at the High Museum of Art, Alanta, Ga., Feb. 19-May 15, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-371) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Glenn D. Lowry -- Preface and acknowledgements / -- Peter Galassi; title: Old worlds, modern times  -- Peter Galassi -- Photographs -- List of photographs; title: Points of reference  -- Aude Raimbult, Dan Leers, Pauline Vermare ; -- Maps by -- Adrian Kitzinger -- A home everywhere :; title: a chronology of Cartier-Bresson's travels -- -- For the printed page :; title: Cartier-Bresson's work in the periodical press ---- Chronology of major photographic exhibitions and books.