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Henri Cartier-Bresson. A Biography | Uma Biografia
Assouline, Pierre
Thames & Hudson, 2013
Capa mole com ilustração editorial | Pictorial illustration softcover | Couverture souple avec illustration éditeur.
280 páginas | pages. 15.7 x 2.3 x 23.4 cm
1ª Edição | 1ere edition | First edition.
ISBN-10 : 0500290520
ISBN-13 : 978-0500290521
Papel de alta qualidade | Papier d’haute qualité | High quality paper
Ilustrado | Illustrated | Illustré
Livro em muito bom estado | Book in very good + condition | Condition: très bon état.
Idioma | Language: Inglês | English | Anglais
PT
“Irá inspirar fãs e seguidores a redescobrir a obra notável de seu tema indescritível.” ―Publishers Weekly
O século XX foi o da imagem, e o lendário fotógrafo Henri Cartier-Bresson, nascido em 1908, foi o olho do século. A história de sua vida e a interpretação de sua obra revelam antes de mais nada a história de uma visão.
Ao atravessar o século, os seus olhos ecléticos focaram-se no fascínio da África na década de 1920, no trágico destino dos republicanos espanhóis, na libertação de Paris, no cansaço de Gandhi algumas horas antes de seu assassinato e na vitória dos comunistas chineses.
Cartier-Bresson estava sempre no local, o grande oportunista, aproveitando os acontecimentos históricos da vida conforme aconteciam.
Um indivíduo intensamente privado, Cartier-Bresson, no entanto, levou Pierre Assouline em sua confiança ao longo de vários anos, discutindo temas como a sua devoção juvenil ao surrealismo, a sua paixão ao longo da vida pelo desenho, a sua experiência de guerra, os seus amigos e as mulheres da sua vida . Ele até lhe abriu os seus arquivos inestimáveis. Esta biografia sensível é o resultado do encontro de duas mentes, revelada da mesma maneira e com a mesma verdade de uma das fotos notáveis e inimitáveis de Cartier-Bresson.
ENG
“Will inspire fans and followers to rediscover its elusive subject’s remarkable oeuvre.” ―Publishers Weekly
The twentieth century was that of the image, and the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in 1908, was the eye of the century. His life story and the interpretation of his work reveal first and foremost the history of a vision.
As he traversed the century, his eclectic eye focused on the fascination of Africa in the 1920s, the tragic fate of the Spanish Republicans, the Liberation of Paris, the weariness of Gandhi a few hours before his assassination, and the victory of the Chinese communists.
Cartier-Bresson was always on the spot, the great opportunist, seizing life’s historic events as they happened.
He was also assistant to Jean Renoir on three major films. He was an artist who wanted to be an artisan, and he was one of the founders of Magnum, the most famous of all photographers’ agencies. It was he who fixed forever the features of famous contemporaries: Mauriac mysteriously levitating; Giacometti and Sartre as characters from their own works; Faulkner, Camus and countless others, their portraits captured for eternity at the decisive moment.
An intensely private individual, Cartier-Bresson nonetheless took Pierre Assouline into his confidence over a number of years, discussing such subjects as his youthful devotion to surrealism, his lifelong passion for drawing, his experience of war, his friends and the women in his life. He even opened up his invaluable archives. This sensitive biography is the result of the meeting of two minds, revealed in much the same way and with the same truth as one of Cartier-Bresson’s outstanding, inimitable photographs.
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