Product Description

Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed some of the icons of the 20th century, those few people among millions whose images will pass into history. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Portraits is a dazzling selection of Cartier-Bressonâs most memorable portraits, including such diverse personalities as Pablo Picasso, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Lucian Freud, Susan Sontag, Coco Chanel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Che Guevara, Tony Hancock and the Dalai Lama.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27287 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

About the Author
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004) was the master of 20th-century photography. Thames & Hudson has published many of his collections, including The Man, The Image and the World, Europeans, A Propos de Paris, Landscape/Townscape and, most recently, his biography, written by Pierre Assouline.

Customer Reviews

Simply Perfect portraiture
Having received this book last week I have been simply addicted to the images that Bresson has taken of notable people in history. What greatly attracts me, as with all his work and any great photography, is the ability of certain portraits to captivate you and arrest your attention by revealing something that was hidden from you the times you viewed them before. Naturally this is a testament to the depth of the image that Bresson is able to capture, by not solely focusing on the person alone, but placing them in the greater context of the environment he finds his subjects in. In conjunction with expressions that are not glamourised, but natural, almost mundane, the totality of the image and its formal arrangement produces portraits that are perfections of style and which touch the surreal. A great and beautiful book.