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
Athens, Greece
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December 16, 03:52 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Athens, Greece
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, 1953, printed later
image: 14 by 9 ½ in. (35.6 by 24.1 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 44
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 99
Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 55
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 130 and 277
'In photography, creation is a quick business—an instant, a gush, a response—putting the camera up to the eye’s line of fire, snatching with that economical little box whatever it was that surprised you, catching it in midair, without tricks, without letting it get away. You make a painting at the same time that you take a photo.'
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York: Aperture, 1999), p. 53