Illustrated with 126 full or double-page heliogravures of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. (Folio) original pictorial boards, jacket. Caption booklet laid in, as issued. First American Edition. One of the most important post-War photography books. The illustrated boards and the jacket are after a cut-out by Henri Matisse specially designed for this book. "The idea of the 'decisive moment' is one of the most enduring in photographic literature, and no one has articulated it better than its coiner, in his preface to this book: 'To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.'" - David Levi Strauss in Roth, pp. 134-35.
Illustrated with 126 full or double-page heliogravures of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. (Folio) original pictorial boards, jacket. Caption booklet laid in, as issued. First American Edition. One of the most important post-War photography books. The illustrated boards and the jacket are after a cut-out by Henri Matisse specially designed for this book. "The idea of the 'decisive moment' is one of the most enduring in photographic literature, and no one has articulated it better than its coiner, in his preface to this book: 'To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.'" - David Levi Strauss in Roth, pp. 134-35.
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