Everything about Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), isn't it déjà vu?
The Center Pompidou devoted a vast scholarly retrospective to him, in its own way, in the spring of 2014. Still in Paris, the Fondation HCB explores all the facets of its epic, such as "Henri Cartier-Bresson in China, 1948-49 / 1958", last winter: came for two weeks to photograph the "last days of Beijing", this incredible eye will stay ten months there and will create icons.
At the turn of the 1970s, after twenty years of intense activity at the Magnum agency, Cartier-Bresson himself took stock of his work, pushed by collectors from Houston (Texas), John and Dominique de Ménil.
Huge work.
From 1972 to 1973, he selected 385 of his best photos from 200,000 negatives.
From 1973 to 1974, he had silver prints made at Picto in Paris with manic care.
Six complete games from this Master Collection - the “Great Game” - are born in this way, true Pandora's boxes of the image.
They are
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