Henri Cartier-Bresson

First English edition of The Europeans inscribed by Eli Wallach, the companion volume to Cartier-Bresson's seminal text, The Decisive Moment.

• Henri Cartier-Bresson (French).
• New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.
• Printed in France by Draeger. 
• 114 pages [xvi].
• Quarto.
• Includes numerous black and white photographs.
• Inscribed on front free endpaper "To "Gadge"…" from Eli Wallach.
• In pictorial boards by Joan Miró, in partial scarce original acetate jacket with attached printed paper flaps, and captions booklet laid in.

This copy of Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Europeans bears the unique provenance of being gifted from director and actor Eli Wallach to director Elia Kazan. Wallach, known for his role as Silva Vacarro in Kazan's screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll which premiered the same year that he inscribed this book, and for co-starring with Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was also a founding member of the Actors Studio. In his inscription to Kazan, he says, "To 'Gadge' From one picture-maker to another. All my love. —Eli".