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
Ezra Pound
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December 16, 04:32 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
Ezra Pound
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, 1971, 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. 120
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 187
E. H. Gombrich, Tête-à-Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson (London, 1998), pl. 1
Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 237
Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 87, 110, and 287
'If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it’s very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin.'
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, as quoted in The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York: Aperture, 1999), p. 79