Exhibit: Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Exhibit: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson
(c) 2010 Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Hyères, France, 1932
One of the first monographs that Cartier-Bresson published was entitled Images á la sauvette, released in France with a cover by Henri Matisse. In the United States, the book was published by Simon and Schuster, with the title The Decisive Moment, a phrase that has come to define the approach to photography that he perfected.

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