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Book "The strength of a gesture"

In a carefully edition, the book selects some faces on the French photographer who posed his camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is probably one of the most influential creators of images of the twentieth century, and his portraits are without doubt among his best known works. For over five decades was highlighted by photographing some of the most eminent personalities of his time, but also to many ordinary people who hit him on his peculiar expression or by the force of his gesture.

In 2003, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, created with the intention to establish a permanent headquarters of the work of the photographer, opened its doors in Paris. This volume is published on the occasion of the first exhibition devoted entirely to the Foundation to its archives and presents a unique combination of imagery and well-known portrait never published before.

Each of the photographs was selected because it exemplifies the description of Cartier-Bresson did what we tried to communicate with their work: "Above all, I seek the silence inside. I'm looking to move the personality and not an expression. " The portraits reproduced in this book-discrete, free of any artifice-confirmed once more the unique talents of Cartier-Bresson, that talent that allowed him to instinctively know what fraction of a second press of the shutter of his camera to capture achieve this unrepeatable moment that distinguishes the works of the great masters of photography.

Via Clubculture

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