Henri Cartier-Bresson - Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago London Monday, November 17, 2014 | Phillips

Photographs from the Collection of the Art...

London 18 November 2014 2pm

  • Literature

    Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History Volume I, p. 209

  • Artist Biography

    Henri Cartier-Bresson

    French • 1908 - 2004

    Candidly capturing fleeting moments of beauty among the seemingly ordinary happenings of daily life, Henri Cartier-Bresson's work is intuitive and observational. Initially influenced by the Surrealists' "aimless walks of discovery," he began shooting on his Leica while traveling through Europe in 1932, revealing the hidden drama and idiosyncrasy in the everyday and mundane. The hand-held Leica allowed him ease of movement while attracting minimal notice as he wandered in foreign lands, taking images that matched his bohemian spontaneity with his painterly sense of composition.

    Cartier-Bresson did not plan or arrange his photographs. His practice was to release the shutter at the moment his instincts told him the scene before him was in perfect balance. This he later famously titled "the decisive moment" — a concept that would influence photographers throughout the twentieth century. 

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT A. TAUB, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Europeans: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson

New York: Simon and Schuster and Paris: Éditions Verve, 1955.
36.7 x 27.3 x 1.8 cm (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 3/4 in.)
114 black and white photographs with original booklet of captions laid-in. Original boards illustrated after a design by Joan Miró. Original acetate dust-jacket with printed paper flaps.

Estimate
£700 - 900 ‡♠

Sold for £875

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Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

London 18 November 2014 2pm