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Henri Cartier-Bresson in India

"Striking images of a land renowned for its contradictions and variety as viewed by one of the great artists of our century."—Houston Post Henri Cartier-Bresson's record of his fascination with India over half a lifetime contains the very best of his photographs of that country. Beginning in 1947 at the time of Independence and produced during six extended visits over a twenty-year period, these beautiful, dramatic images are shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and for going to the heart of the matter. Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary gifts of observation and his famous "mantle of invisibility," as well as his good connections with Jawaharlal Nehru and others, allowed him to capture the quintessence of India. His pictures of Hindus in refugee camps after the Partition or beggars in Calcutta speak with the same passion and authority as those of the Maharaja of Baroda's sumptuous birthday celebrations or of the Mountbattens on the steps of Government House. Ample space is given to his famous reportages, such as the astonishing sequence on the death and cremation of Gandhi. But above all, it is the apparently ordinary faces and scenes from market, temple, or countryside that have the power to put us in direct touch with the spirit of a country and its people. 105 duotone illustrations.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Tete a Tete: Portraits bu Henri Cartier-Bresson | Introduction by E. H. Gombrich | 1998 | Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Tete a Tete Portraits By Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bulfinch, Boston

"No one in the twentieth century created more instantly recognizable images than Cartier-Bresson."—Denver Post Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was perhaps the finest and most influential image maker of the twentieth century, and his portraits are among his best-known work. Over a fifty year period, he photographed some of the most eminent personalities of the era, as well as ordinary people, chosen as subjects because of their striking and unusual features. In 2003, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, which was created to provide a permanent home for his collected works, opened in Paris. This book is published to coincide with the first exhibition at the Fondation that is drawn entirely from those archives, and it features both well-known images and previously unpublished portraits. Each portrait has been chosen because it perfectly embodies Cartier-Bresson's description of what he was attempting to communicate in his photographs: "I'm seeking above all an inner silence. I am trying to translate the personality and not an expression." The portraits reproduced here—discreet, without artifice, their subjects frozen in time—confirm once more the singular gift of Cartier-Bresson who instinctively knew in which revealing fraction of a second to click the shutter. 100 illustrations.

An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

Reference

Thames&Hudson

Book by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francois Nourissier

Cartier-Bresson's France

Francois Nourissier

Studio

Asia, is in the book with 150 plates, divided in 5 chapters: the ancient civilizations of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Uzbekistan; the great religions Buddhism, Hinduism and Muslim from India, Burma, Bali and Java; Japan and China before and after the revolution.

The Face of Asia

A Studio Book/Viking Press

A selection of Cartier-Bresson's most memorable portraits, published to accompany the 1998 National Portrait Gallery exhibition. The photographer himself supervised the design of the book and the juxtaposition of the images. Sir Ernst Gombrich provides an introduction to the collection.

Tete a Tete

Individual Artists

Bulfinch

The photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson has resulted in a body of work unique in the history of this craft, not alone in kind but in quality. Apart from the fac that he is responsible for more individual memorable images than any other photographer in his epoch, his attitude toward is art...is based on a philosophy at once traditional, logical, and exemplary.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography)

Apeture

Gorgeous duotones that show how, for Cartier-Bresson, art is an expression of common humanity. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) studied painting before taking up photography in his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency Magnum (together with Robert Capa and others), he is best known for the skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes. This volume includes his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico, and pre-revolutionary China.About the series: The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography. 63 duotone illustrations

Henri Cartier-Bresson (History of Photography)

Gordon Fraser

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, brush, and cameras

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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