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'What an astonishing haul - and how gloriously they have been captured. Rembrandt would have loved this book' - Independent 'Another release of spellbinding images from the master's archive ... one gets from his images a real sense of curiosity about the human spirit' - Amateur Photographer 'Totally arresting and utterly beautiful' - Metro 'Relentlessly brilliant ... as I turn the pages of this book I experience a sort of quiet awe' - Black & White Photography

Highly recommended for all libraries.

Cartier-Bresson set out to unmask mysteries--the mystery of a photograph, of a human being who happened to be his subject that day and, perhaps, even of human connection itself.

Highly recommended for all libraries. Highly recommended for all libraries. The master of the decisive moment brought the same ability to capture the essence of a situation to his portraiture. Cartier-Bresson set out to unmask mysteries the mystery of a photograph, of a human being who happened to be his subject that day and, perhaps, even of human connection itself. The pose reflects nothing so much as motion stilled for a moment--and thereby, once caught on film, for an eternity. The master of the 'decisive moment' brought the same ability to capture the essence of a situation to his portraiture. Cartier-Bresson set out to unmask mysteries--the mystery of a photograph, of a human being who happened to be his subject that day and, perhaps, even of human connection itself.

Cartier-Bresson set out to unmask mysteries the mystery of a photograph, of a human being who happened to be his subject that day and, perhaps, even of human connection itself.

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Agnès Sire has been the director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris since its creation in 2003.

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