Authors:Henri Cartier-Bresson,  Yves Bonnefoy,
Publisher: Bulfinch
Keywords: photographer, bresson, cartier, henri
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 1992-10-21
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0821219863
ISBN-13: 9780821219867

For more than 45 years, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s camera has glorified the decisive moment in images of unique beauty and lyrical compassion. From the cities of war-torn Europe to the rural landscape of the American South, this retrospective volume shows the lifework of a legendary photographer. 155 duotone illustrations.

Authors:Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Vequaud, Satyajit Ray,
Publisher: Thames & Hudso
Keywords: india, bresson, cartier, henri
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-04-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0500277125
ISBN-13: 9780500277126

"Striking images of a land renowned for its contradictions and variety as viewed by one of the great artists of our century."—Houston PostHenri Cartier-Bresson’s record of his fascination with India over half a lifetime contains the very best of his photographs of that country. Beginning in 1947 at the time of Independence and produced during six extended visits over a twenty-year period, these beautiful, dramatic images are shaped by an eye and a mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and for going to the heart of the matter.Cartier-Bresson’s extraordinary gifts of obse

Authors:Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael Brenson,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: photofile, bresson, cartier, henri
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0500410607
ISBN-13: 9780500410608

Gorgeous duotones that show how, for Cartier-Bresson, art is an expression of common humanity.Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) studied painting before taking up photography in his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency Magnum (together with Robert Capa and others), he is best known for the skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes. This volume includes his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico, and pre-revolutionary China.About the series: The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photo

Author: Tony Pipolo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: film, passion, bresson, robert
Number of Pages: 407
Published: 2010-01-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195319796
ISBN-13: 9780195319798

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form’s grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical aspects of the work. Concentrating on the films’ cinematographic, imagistic, narrative, and thematic st

Author: Cunnee
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: film, style, spiritual, bresson, robert
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0826414710
ISBN-13: 9780826414717

Although Robert Bresson is widely regarded by movie critics and students of the cinema as one of the greatest directors of the twentieth century, his films are largely unknown and are rarely shown in the English-speaking world. Nonetheless, Susan Sontag has called Bresson "the master of the reflective mode in film." The present book, which introduces Bresson’s movies to a broader audience, assesses thirteen of his most significant films in the context of detailed plot summaries, vivid descriptions of characters and settings, and perceptive, jargon-free insights into the director’s

Authors:Robert Bresson,  J.M.G. Le Clezio,
Publisher: Green Integer
Keywords: integer, cinematographer, notes
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1997-05-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1557133654
ISBN-13: 9781557133656

French film classic, tr J Griffin, intro Le Clezio

Authors:Agnes Sire, Jean-Luc Nancy,
Publisher: Thames & Hudso
Keywords: cartier, bresson, henri, portraits, silence, inner
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1969-12-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0500288755
ISBN-13: 9780500288757

�??These masterful photos blend the spontaneity of a great snapshot with the highly organized composition of a classical painting.�?��??Publishers Weekly Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908�??2004) was perhaps the finest and most influential image maker of the twentieth century, and his portraits are among his best-known work. Over a fifty-year period, he photographed some of the most eminent personalities of the era, as well as ordinary people, chosen as subjects because of their striking and unusual features. Originally published to coincide with an exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson