Henri Cartier-Bresson
APERTURE
THE APERTURE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The first multi-volume series devoted to the great photographers of the world and their most important images. Each book presents an evocative selection of the photographer's lifework accompanied by a memorable text-produced with the finest printing quality, Aperture's trademark for twenty-five years.
The complete series will provide an unmatched library of historical and living photographers.
Henri Cartier-Bresson is the most brilliant and far ranging of living photographers.
Wherever he has lived-notably in Europe, America and the Far East - he has discovered life's most revealing dimensions and expressed the eternals of our time by the instantaneity of his method.
He works with intuition, sensitivity. discipline of mind, and a sense of geometry.
Memorable, penetratingly intelligent images are his standard.
Front cover: Calle Cuauhtemozctín, Mexico, 1934
Frontispiece: New England, U.S.A., 1947
Córdoba, Spain, 1933
11. Taxi drivers, Berlin, 1932
13. Marseilles, 1932
15. Brussels, 1932
17. Seville, Spain, 1933
19. Seville, Spain, 1932
21. Alicante, Spain, 1932
23. Madrid, 1933
25. Arena at Valencia, Spain, 1933
27. By the Marne River, 1938
99. Barrio Chino, Barcelona, Spain, 1933
31. Quai Saint-Bernard, Paris, 1932
33. Mexico, 1934
35. Quai de Javel, Paris, 1932
57. Valencia, Spain, 1933
39. Behind the Saint-Lazare station, Paris, 1932
41. Trieste, Italy, 1933
43. Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Paris, 1945
45. Cardinal Pacelli at Montmartre, Paris, 1938
47. In a deportee camp, a Gestapo informer is recognized by a woman she has denounced: Dessau, Germany, 1945
49. The Berlin Wall, 1963
51. Hyde Park, London, 1938
53. Trafalgar Square on the day George VI was crowned: London, 1938
55. At the Curragh race course near Dublin, 1955
57. Henri Matisse, Vence, 1944
59. Pierre Bonnard, Le Cannet, 1944
61. Cafeteria of the workers' building, the Hotel Met- ropol, Moscow, 1954
63. The last days of the Kuomintang. Peking, 1949
65. Eunuch of the imperial court of the last dynasty, Peking, 1949
67. Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948
69. Gymnastics in a refugee camp at Kurukshetra, Punjab, India, 1948
71. Ahmedabad, India, 1965
73. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi, 1947
75. Volcano of Popocatepetl, Mexico, 1964
77. Midnight Mass at Scanno in the Abruzzi, Italy. 1953
79. Funeral of a Kabuki actor, Japan, 1965
81. Cell in a model prison in the US.A., 1975
83. Rumania, 1975
85. Simiane la Rotonde. 1970
87. In Brie, France, June 1968
95. Salerno, Italy. 1933