A certain number of
Cartier-Bresson's first works are simply about the arresting of a motion that could not be held, as in the famous shot of a man leaping a puddle behind the Gare St.
Most offerings will be 20th-century photographs, with better-known works by Ansel Adams, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, and Edward Weston.
The radioactive orange of smoggy LA sunsets, the pearly sea green of a freshly waxed Chevrolet: Just a few pages into HARRY GRUYAERT: EAST/WEST (Thames & Hudson, $65), readers will be thankful that the Belgian-born photographer disagreed with his famous colleague Henri
Cartier-Bresson, who thought color in photographs was "disgusting." Gruyaert, in step with his American counterparts William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, built an aesthetic from saturated hues, embracing an adinfluenced color palette.
IN THE WINTER OF 1947, A YOUNG AND COMPARATIVELY UNKNOWN FRENCH photographer Henri
Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) held his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and co-founded what would become the internationally renowned photography cooperative Magnum Photos.
The diverse collection includes leading 20th and 21st-century photographers such as Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Sergio Larrain, Bill Brandt, Martine Franck, Bruce Davidson and Martin Parr, through to emerging photographers such as Bieke Depoorter, Clementine Schneidermann and Diana Markosian.
In doing so, experts say, the Magnum has assembled a significant and diverse collection that includes leading 20th and 21st century photographers such as Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Sergio Larrain, Bill Brandt, Martine Franck, Bruce Davidson and Martin Parr, through to emerging photographers such as Bieke Depoorter, Clementine Schneidermann and Diana Markosian.
A major exhibit of Henri
Cartier-Bresson is being held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until 15 June, focusing on the two stories of the artist, his life as a painter and as a photographer.
His themes include the voyeur tendencies of photographers, the "decisive moment" of photography ideologue Henri
Cartier-Bresson, and the rules of composition.
The first photograph on show is the most famous frame clicked by Robert Capa (a founder of Magnum, along with Henri
Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour), on June 6, 1944, when the first wave of American troops landed on France's Normandy Omaha Beach.