An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson - Hardcover

Agnès Sire; Jean-Luc Nancy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500543178 ISBN 13: 9780500543177

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2006

Synopsis

Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed some of the icons of the 20th century, those few people among millions whose images will pass into history. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Portraits is a dazzling selection of Cartier-Bressons most memorable portraits, including such diverse personalities as Pablo Picasso, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Lucian Freud, Susan Sontag, Coco Chanel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Che Guevara, Tony Hancock and the Dalai Lama.

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Review:

'The images themselves are of the quality we have learned to expect from this master .... in every case, Cartier-Bresson seems to have captured the soul of the subject' --RPS Journal

'[HCB's] forays into portraiture, the finest of which have the complex presence of a Titian' --The Daily Telegraph

'If photographers are assassins, then Bresson was Lee Harvey Oswald. The man shot everyone' --The Independent on Sunday

'Relentlessly brilliant ... as I turn the pages of this book I experience a sort of quiet awe' --Black & White Photography

'Totally arresting and utterly beautiful'
--Metro

About the Author:

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004) was the master of 20th-century photography. Thames & Hudson has published many of his collections, including The Man, The Image and the World, Europeans, A Propos de Paris, Landscape/Townscape and, most recently, his biography, written by Pierre Assouline.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0500543178
• ISBN 13: 9780500543177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160