The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman
The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Jardin des Plantes, Paris
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December 16, 03:55 PM GMT
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Jardin des Plantes, Paris
large-format gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, 1959, printed later
image: 11 ⅝ by 17 ½ in. (29.5 by 44.5 cm.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson, À Propos de Paris (Boston, 1994), pl. 56
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), p. 253
Anne de Mondenard and Agnès Sire, eds., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited (London, 2021), cat. 142, pp. 154-5
‘We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. . . Our task is to perceive reality, almost simultaneously recording it in the sketchbook which is our camera. We must neither try to manipulate reality while we are shooting, nor manipulate the results in the darkroom. These tricks are patently discernible to those who have eyes to see.’
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, ‘The Decisive Moment,’ reproduced in The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York: Aperture, 1999), p. 27