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
Barrio Chino, Barcelona, Spain
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December 16, 03:17 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Barrio Chino, Barcelona, Spain
gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, 1933, printed later
image: 14 ⅛ by 9 ½ in. (35.9 by 24.1 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 1
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 76
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 165
Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans (Paris: Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2004), p. 135
Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 98
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 61, 167, 208, and 261
‘Photography implies the recognition of a rhythm in the world of real things. What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular subject within the mass of reality; what the camera does is simply to register upon the film the decision made by the eye.’
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, ‘The Decisive Moment,’ reproduced in The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York: Aperture, 1999), p. 32