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

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Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck

'The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers'

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December 16, 04:41 PM GMT

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Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck

(1908 - 2004 and 1938 - 2012)

Henri Cartier-Bresson Drawing, rue de Rivoli and 'The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers'


a gelatin silver print by Martine Franck, signed in ink in the margin, editioned '28/100' in pencil on the reverse, 1992, printed later, as issued with the limited edition of 'The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers' (New York, 1999, edition of 100 plus 25 artist's proof), folio, blue linen covers, signed by Henri Cartier-Bresson and with edition '28' in ink on the colophon, both enclosed in a blue linen clamshell box with credit in gilt (2)

the photograph: 6 ¼ by 9 ⅜ in. (15.9 by 23.8 cm.)

portfolio box: 12 by 9 ¼ in. (30.5 by 23.5 cm.)

The photograph:


Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York, 1999), reverse dust jacket

Pierre Assouline, Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography, trans. David Wilson (London, 2005), p. 186

Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 61

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 377

Anne de Mondenard and Agnès Sire, eds., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris Revisited (London, 2021), cat. 214, p. 247