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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Henri Cartier-Bresson trained as an artist before embarking on a career in photography in the early 1930s since when he has become one of the finest and most eminent image makers of our time. In 1940 he was captured by the Nazis and spent three years in prisoner- of-war camps before escaping to join the Paris Resistance. He founded the photographic agency Magnum with Robert Capa David Seymour and others in 1947 and since then his work has taken him all over world – from Europe to India Burma Pakistan China Japan Indonesia Bali Russia the Middle East Cuba Mexico the United States and Canada. This new collection of work by Cartier- Bresson is the ultimate retrospective look at a lifetime’s achievement. It brims with classic photographs that have become icons of the medium as well as rarely seen work from all periods of Cartier-Bresson’s life including a significant number of previously unpublished photographs and a generous selection of drawings paintings and film stills. The book also features personal souvenirs from Cartier- Bresson’s youth his family and the founding of Magnum. Cartier-Bresson’s extraordinary images are shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and for their unerring ability to get to the heart of the matter. (OS)