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“Will inspire fans and followers to rediscover its elusive subject’s remarkable oeuvre.” —Publishers Weekly
The twentieth century was that of the image, and the legendary
photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in 1908, was the eye
of the century.
Cartier-Bresson was always on the spot, recording historic
events as they happened. His work focused on Mexico in the 1930s,
the tragic fate of the Spanish Republicans, the liberation of Paris,
the weariness of Gandhi a few hours before his assassination, and
the victory of the Chinese Communists. It was he who fixed forever
in our minds the features of famous contemporaries: Giacometti,
Sartre, Faulkner, Camus, and others, their portraits captured for
eternity at the decisive moment.
An intensely private individual, Cartier-Bresson nonetheless
took Pierre Assouline into his confidence over a number of years,
discussing his youthful devotion to surrealism, his lifelong passion
for drawing, his experience of war and the prison camps, his friends,
and the women in his life. He even opened up his invaluable archives.
