Henri Cartier-Bresson The Modern Century MoMA Hardcover NEW Shrinkwrapped 2010
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century Henri Cartier-Bresson / Text by Peter Galassi The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010 Hardcover, 376 pages ISBN: 9780870707780 Brand new hardcover copy, still in shrink wrap. The book appears pristine and unread. There is one small rip in the shrink wrap along the page-edge area, shown in the photos; the book itself appears unaffected. Published to accompany MoMA’s major 2010 retrospective, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century is a substantial, beautifully produced survey of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. MoMA described the exhibition as the first U.S. Cartier-Bresson retrospective in three decades, with about 300 photographs, bw and color, arranged across the full arc of his career. This volume matters because it moves beyond the familiar shorthand of “the decisive moment” and shows Cartier-Bresson as something larger: a witness to the political, social, and cultural upheavals of the modern century. The book draws on the extensive holdings of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and includes many famous images along with photographs less familiar even to specialists. It also includes Peter Galassi’s major essay, chronologies, and supporting material on Cartier-Bresson’s picture stories as they appeared in magazines. A contemporaneous review in The Guardian called one image in the book “the decisive moment writ large,” which is about as tidy a summary of Cartier-Bresson’s gift as anyone is likely to
- Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
- Year: 2010
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780870707780
- Condition: Fine
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