Henri Cartier-Bresson

Pierre Assouline

Buch

A Biography

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Publisher:: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 10/2024
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780500297957
Item number:: 11876728
Volume:: 352 Pages
Weight:: 396 g
Format:: 195 x 126 mm
Thickness:: 28 mm
Release date:: 10.10.2024
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Blurb

The definitive biography of the greatest photographer of modern times - a vital addition to the library of everyone with an interest in photography. Henri Cartier-Bresson was the eye of the 20th century. His lens chronicled the decisive moments of his time - from Chinese communist victories to the Spanish Civil War and the Liberation of Paris. A co-founder of Magnum Photos, Cartier-Bresson produced unparalleled portraits of his contemporaries, capturing the spirit of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and William Faulkner. Cartier-Bresson took Pierre Assouline into his confidence over a number of years, detailing his youthful devotion to surrealism, lifelong passion for drawing, and experiences of war and prison camps. This sensitive biography emerges from a meeting of two minds, revealed with the same truth as one of Cartier Bresson's photographs.

Biography

Pierre Assouline wurde 1953 in Casablanca geboren. Er entstammt einer sephardischen Familie, sein Vater kämpfte in der Resistance. Assouline ist Redaktionschef der Zeitschrift "Lire". Er schrieb Biographien, z. B. über Georges Simenon, Jean Jardin, Herge, Gaston Gallimard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, und Dokumentationen z. B. über Lourdes und "Le dernier des Camondo" über eine legendäre sephardische Bankiersdynastie. Seine Bücher wurden in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt. "In meinen Augen ist das Leben nicht schwarz-weiß", sagt Pierre Assouline. "Es ist grau. Was mich interessiert, sind die Menschen und ihre geheimen Schubladen."